From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general/949 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Charlie Brady Newsgroups: gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general Subject: Re: runit not ready for cross-compilation Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 10:33:03 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: References: <200512120150.02803.radek@podgorny.cz> <439CDE9D.6090204@geeks.cl> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1134747363 2096 80.91.229.2 (16 Dec 2005 15:36:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 15:36:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: supervision@list.skarnet.org Original-X-From: supervision-return-1185-gcsg-supervision=m.gmane.org@list.skarnet.org Fri Dec 16 16:35:55 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from antah.skarnet.org ([212.85.147.14]) by ciao.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EnHa2-0005nz-Ms for gcsg-supervision@gmane.org; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 16:33:11 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 15914 invoked by uid 76); 16 Dec 2005 15:33:28 -0000 Mailing-List: contact supervision-help@list.skarnet.org; run by ezmlm List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: Original-Received: (qmail 15908 invoked from network); 16 Dec 2005 15:33:28 -0000 X-X-Sender: charlieb@e-smith.charlieb.ott.istop.com Original-To: Alejandro Mery In-Reply-To: <439CDE9D.6090204@geeks.cl> Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general:949 Archived-At: 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 :-)