From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (minnie.tuhs.org [50.116.15.146]) by inbox.vuxu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25E6F25F2D for ; Sun, 23 Jun 2024 22:15:48 +0200 (CEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31E5D436EF; Mon, 24 Jun 2024 06:15:45 +1000 (AEST) Received: from vmail1.sentex.ca (vmail1.sentex.ca [64.7.153.19]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CCE69436E6 for ; Mon, 24 Jun 2024 06:15:41 +1000 (AEST) Received: (Haraka outbound); Sun, 23 Jun 2024 16:15:41 -0400 Authentication-Results: vmail1.sentex.ca; auth=pass (plain) Received: from [10.0.1.25] ([206.210.117.153]) by vmail1.sentex.ca (Haraka/2.8.25) with ESMTPSA id 27FDA067-DA9A-43A7-897F-A6FBA67A8E1D.1 envelope-from (authenticated bits=0) (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256); Sun, 23 Jun 2024 16:15:41 -0400 Message-ID: <6e98901c-16cd-9a46-105e-8e694353c666@riddermarkfarm.ca> Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2024 16:15:40 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.11.0 To: tuhs@tuhs.org References: <87jzikt900.fsf@gmail.com> <877cej5gsp.fsf@gmail.com> <87le2xvo4y.fsf@gmail.com> <76644602-7257-4050-b625-050966280e1c@case.edu> <1d0f3aa8-af0c-1ee2-7625-7dc1a825c457@makerlisp.com> Content-Language: en-CA From: Stuff Received In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Haraka-GeoIP: NA, CA, ON, Campbellville, 23km Message-ID-Hash: QWOWNUPG2MRQV4B35WWNL4LJ6UB44G3K X-Message-ID-Hash: QWOWNUPG2MRQV4B35WWNL4LJ6UB44G3K X-MailFrom: stuff@riddermarkfarm.ca X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [TUHS] Re: Building programs (Re: Version 256 of systemd boasts '42% less Unix philosophy' The Register List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: On 2024-06-23 14:56, Chet Ramey via TUHS wrote: > On 6/22/24 2:15 PM, Luther Johnson wrote: >> It may just mean that someone made some >> fairly ordinary mistake along the way in setting up the build. Or that >> the system on which we are trying to build is different in a way that >> the author did not imagine. > > A third possibility is that the author or authors decided not to test for > and support a set of (in this case) older systems. Not a lack of > imagination, but a development priority decision. My opinion is that the authors simply did not have access to other systems or were not interested. Sometimes, one finds a disclaimer to that effect. I understand that but I am irked when they claim POSIX compliance. S.