Re: [9fans] Gawk in 9front-ports

[erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>]

confirmed.  it's existence is due to early gnu programs fighting with small variations in unix and compilers.  byron's rc used a small script to the same effect.  but for the most part, this all could be avoided with careful planning and not using esoteric functions.  

gcc also had its own configuration step.  the header rewriting is a vestage of this system.

- erik


On Jul 9, 2015 05:31, Jeff Sickel <jas@corpus-callosum.com> wrote:
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> > On Jul 9, 2015, at 5:19 AM, Steve Simon <steve@quintile.net> wrote: 
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> > FWIW: fgb did a stirling script called config which sets up some 
> > environment and runs configure under ape. It doesn't always work but often gets close 
> > to generating a config.h as linux intended. 
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> Configure predates Linux.  That, or my memory of using it to bang my head against the perl wall in the 1980s damaged the register. 
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> -jas 
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> … at least you’re not using Xenix 
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