From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v753) In-Reply-To: <20080202182756.GA862@shodan.homeunix.net> References: <0e742be69697735012d14c6319071fa1@terzarima.net> <5d375e920802020941k6f662ab1s3ac9a41d6d95bb66@mail.gmail.com> <20080202182756.GA862@shodan.homeunix.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Pietro Gagliardi Subject: Re: [9fans] A newbie question... Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2008 16:16:39 -0500 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 40747586-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Autotools increases portability by 57%, but then decreases portability by 75% (mv -f, ls -i not available in Plan 9), decreases usability by 750%, and decreases sanity by 7500%. I wanted to contribute to AbIWord but it took me a long time before I got it built. :-( Then I discovered troff in the back of Kernighan/Pike and am much happier :-) On Feb 2, 2008, at 1:27 PM, Martin Neubauer wrote: > * Uriel (uriel99@gmail.com) wrote: >> Autotools badness is way beyond most peoples wildest imagination... > > Unfortunately, you don't have to imagine. >