From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 17:33:46 -0700 From: Christopher Nielsen To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Silly porting fun In-Reply-To: <200007130023.UAA11954@cse.psu.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Topicbox-Message-UUID: d9587294-eac8-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 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 Enkhyl on IRC Space monkeys ate my brain: No such file or directory