From: Christopher Nielsen <cnielsen@pobox.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Silly porting fun
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 17:33:46 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007121728540.93255-100000@cassandra.wayward-volvo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200007130023.UAA11954@cse.psu.edu>
On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Russ Cox wrote:
> The whole GNU configure script idea always seemed like a giant
> kluge to me; an artifact of having to live in a world of various
> flavours of UNIX.
>
> You make it sound as though it's the only
> thing to do when living in such a world.
> There are ways to get portable code without
> configure.
Hrm... I guess it does sound that way. It certainly wasn't meant to sound
like that. :-)
There are, of course, many things a programmer can do to make code more
portable.
--
Christopher Nielsen
(enkhyl|cnielsen)@pobox.com
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2000-07-13 0:23 Russ Cox
2000-07-13 0:33 ` Christopher Nielsen [this message]
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2000-07-14 18:42 dhog
2000-07-14 14:53 Russ Cox
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2000-07-14 9:58 forsyth
2000-07-16 16:04 ` Lucio De Re
2000-07-14 4:18 pip
2000-07-13 23:58 rob pike
2000-07-14 9:18 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2000-07-13 20:32 Russ Cox
2000-07-13 8:36 forsyth
2000-07-13 16:01 ` Greg Hudson
2000-07-14 9:15 ` peter huang
2000-07-14 9:19 ` Kris Van Hees
2000-07-14 14:56 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2000-07-17 9:11 ` Christopher Browne
2000-07-13 0:31 Russ Cox
2000-07-13 5:21 ` Randolph Fritz
2000-07-12 23:30 forsyth
2000-07-12 23:46 ` Christopher Nielsen
2000-07-13 5:19 ` Randolph Fritz
2000-07-12 21:16 Randolph Fritz
2000-07-12 21:44 ` Latchesar Ionkov
2000-07-13 9:59 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2000-07-13 0:38 ` arisawa
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