* Re: [9fans] configure misery
[not found] <c40d2beae31a26c28b62b84dbf5acba0@hamnavoe.com>
@ 2003-11-13 22:51 ` Bruce Ellis
2003-11-13 23:10 ` Charles Forsyth
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Bruce Ellis @ 2003-11-13 22:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
Not known to work reliably on any system, but the code is huge.
Open Sores that won't heal. Don't trust a shell script larger than
your kernel!
brucee
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Miller" <miller@hamnavoe.demon.co.uk>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 12:18 PM
Subject: Re: [9fans] configure misery
> > ; ls -lt */configure
> > --rwxr--r-- M 108286 geoff collyer 716640 May 17 21:53 imagemagick/configure
> > --rwx------ M 108286 geoff collyer 100023 Nov 7 2000 bochs/configure
> > --rwxr-xr-x M 108286 geoff collyer 33106 Apr 27 1996 groff-1.09/configure
> >
> > It really doesn't need a 23,000-line shell script to set up some
> > makefiles and generate a few #define lines.
>
> Moreover, if you google for imagemagick configure it appears that it doesn't
> work properly even on Linux.
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
[parent not found: <81132473206F3A46A72BD6116E1A06AE479CA3@black.aprote.com>]
end of thread, other threads:[~2003-11-13 23:10 UTC | newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages (download: mbox.gz / follow: Atom feed)
-- links below jump to the message on this page --
[not found] <c40d2beae31a26c28b62b84dbf5acba0@hamnavoe.com>
2003-11-13 22:51 ` [9fans] configure misery Bruce Ellis
2003-11-13 23:10 ` Charles Forsyth
[not found] <81132473206F3A46A72BD6116E1A06AE479CA3@black.aprote.com>
2003-11-13 16:17 ` Taj Khattra
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).