From owner-freebsd-mozilla Sun Sep 27 14:25:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA19107 for freebsd-mozilla-outgoing; Sun, 27 Sep 1998 14:25:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-mozilla@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from zippy.dyn.ml.org (sf3-32.ppp.wenet.net [206.15.84.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA19072 for ; Sun, 27 Sep 1998 14:25:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from garbanzo@hooked.net) Received: from localhost (garbanzo@localhost) by zippy.dyn.ml.org (8.9.1/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA09757; Sun, 27 Sep 1998 14:25:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from garbanzo@hooked.net) X-Authentication-Warning: zippy.dyn.ml.org: garbanzo owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1998 14:25:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Alex X-Sender: garbanzo@zippy.dyn.ml.org To: Jeremy Lea cc: Terry Lambert , mozilla@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Happy... In-Reply-To: <19980925012610.A3563@shale.csir.co.za> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-mozilla@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, Jeremy Lea wrote: [...] > > I think the FreeBSD project is evil. It makes it almost impossible to work > with other 'open source' projects, because of the clarity and quality of > the source, build system and CVS logs. > > The mozilla tree seems to have no less than five build systems. Four > homegrown config.mk directories, plus autoconf. Not one build option is > documented, and there are about 200 of them. CVS logs have informative > messages like "first checkin", "spanked" and "privte branch landing" > (sometimes for changes to 100+ files). And jwz says that Netscape stifles creativity :p > Does anyone have a spare copy of the Bruce Filter to send them... Ask Bruce. I'm sure it's SIGABRT on them tho ;) > PS. If anyone wants a nice easy way to trigger the inetd realloc bug, try > building a debug static mozilla with 64MB RAM and 140MB swap. 78MB > executable :) Masochists can try loading it in gdb. No, masochists can try running it on a 386 with 400mb swap across 2 80mb IDE hdds and 2 200mbs, and 8mb ram, and did I mention the old no-name video card bundled with a cheap glazed doughnut to power X :) - alex | "Contrary to popular belief, penguins are not the salvation of modern | | technology. Neither do they throw parties for the urban proletariat." | | Powered by FreeBSD http://www.freebsd.org/ | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mozilla" in the body of the message