From: Charlie Brady <charlieb-supervision@budge.apana.org.au>
Cc: supervision@list.skarnet.org
Subject: Re: runit not ready for cross-compilation
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 10:33:03 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0512161031140.3689@e-smith.charlieb.ott.istop.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <439CDE9D.6090204@geeks.cl>
On Sun, 11 Dec 2005, Alejandro Mery wrote:
> yes, runit has the same bad habit djb software has. compiling it's own build
> timers helpers in the same way that the runtime programs.
>
> what's the reason to use binary helpers instead of simple sh scripts for
> those tasks?
I think djb's rationale is that he can create his own portability, and
doesn't depend on the portable implementation of features by the platform
provider. Except for the compiler's C implementation, that is :-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-16 15:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-12 0:50 Radek Podgorny
2005-12-12 2:21 ` Alejandro Mery
2005-12-16 15:33 ` Charlie Brady [this message]
2005-12-17 22:58 ` Radek Podgorny
2005-12-17 23:06 ` Charlie Brady
2005-12-18 10:30 ` Radek Podgorny
2006-01-03 14:12 ` Gerrit Pape
2006-01-03 19:49 ` Radek Podgorny
2006-01-03 20:16 ` Charlie Brady
2006-01-05 15:01 ` Charles Duffy
2006-01-05 15:17 ` Charlie Brady
2006-01-06 3:54 ` Alejandro Mery
2006-01-06 11:07 ` Radek Podgorny
2006-01-06 12:51 ` Charles Duffy
2006-01-06 13:54 ` OT: cross compilation and autoconf [was: Re: runit not ready for cross-compilation] Charles Duffy
2006-01-06 16:54 ` Laurent Bercot
2006-01-06 18:42 ` Charlie Brady
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