From: culliton@srg.af.mil (Tom Culliton x2278)
To: byron@archone.tamu.edu, rc@archone.tamu.edu
Subject: Re: configuration parameters
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1992 12:25:06 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9202141325.aa10591@ceres.srg.af.mil> (raw)
I'd like to agree with Chris on this and disagree with who ever
suggested using imake. Having the configuration parameters in the make
file, as they are now, works beautifully. As matters stand I copy
"Makefile" to "makefile" edit the configuration options in that and go.
I never even have to touch any of the original files (aside from
applying patches from Byron ;-) ).
This is utterly painless and shows an absolutely incredible level of
portability. Having ported more packages than I care to count to
various machines, rc is probably the cleanest. Most packages get
checked into RCS the minute they're unbundled so we can track the
changes necessary just to get them running, not so with rc!
As to Imake... While the concept is probably OK the execution generally
stinks. I've never seen it work right yet. Please don't inflict it on
us!
Tom
next reply other threads:[~1992-02-14 18:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1992-02-14 18:25 Tom Culliton x2278 [this message]
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1992-02-16 19:58 Alan Hargreaves
1992-02-17 15:35 ` jew
1992-02-14 23:20 rjc
1992-02-14 19:01 Tom Culliton x2278
1992-02-14 14:15 Rich Salz
1992-02-14 5:19 Byron Rakitzis
1992-02-14 5:33 ` Chris Siebenmann
1992-02-14 17:41 ` Brendan Kehoe
1992-02-14 18:24 ` Chris Siebenmann
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