From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] impressive Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 17:13:28 -0700 From: geoff@collyer.net In-Reply-To: <13740.1147211763@piper.nectar.cs.cmu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 4fb54c5c-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 5,000 lines is actually a rather small configure script. These are the configure scripts I have lying around (just on Plan 9, I haven't even looked at my Mac or OpenBSD firewall) that exceed 5,000 lines: 5520 /n/other/scr/src/gs/hpijs-1.5/configure 5621 /sys/src/libdb/dist/configure 5962 /sys/src/cmd/uucp.taylor/configure 5962 /n/other/frommac/src/cmd/uucp/configure 6722 /sys/src/cmd/links/configure 6722 /n/other/scr/links/links.native/configure 6722 /n/other/scr/links/links.varfont/configure 7352 /n/other/scr/src/gs/jbig2dec/configure 7751 /usr/geoff/src/cmd/unix/rc.byron/configure 8000 /n/other/frommac/desk/gilmore/udftools-1.0.0b2/configure 8250 /n/other/frommac/desk/src/flex/flex-2.5.31/configure 9756 /n/other/scr/src/gs/configure 11460 /n/other/frommac/desk/src/raid.evms/configure 12676 /usr/geoff/src/cmd/grip/grip/configure 13698 /n/other/scr/src/mp3enc.lame/configure 16489 /usr/geoff/src/cmd/imagemagick/ltdl/configure 16489 /n/other/dist/image.magick/im/ltdl/configure 23719 /usr/geoff/src/cmd/imagemagick/configure 23851 /n/other/frommac/src/cmd/bochs/configure 25527 /n/other/dist/image.magick/im/configure 25877 /n/other/scr/src/index/swishe/swish-e-2.4.2/configure Trying to debug a machine-generated 25,000-line script is really fun.