From owner-cvs-all Tue Mar 30 18:41:32 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D51B15452; Tue, 30 Mar 1999 18:41:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chuckr@mat.net) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by picnic.mat.net (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA14356; Tue, 30 Mar 1999 21:39:12 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 21:39:12 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey To: James FitzGibbon Cc: Warner Losh , Bill Fumerola , Satoshi - the Wraith - Asami , taoka@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/japanese/canuum Makefile In-Reply-To: <19990330211858.C24032@ehlo.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, James FitzGibbon wrote: > * Warner Losh (imp@harmony.village.org) [990330 20:03]: > > > There was a time that the X folks were trying to get people to use > > imake for more than just X. > > Hence O'Reilly's book "Software Portability with imake". GNU Autoconf came > along just in time to save us all.... Oh come on now now, it's not *that* evil, when you compare it to configure/libtool. It's not fun, but against the competition, once you get it working smoothly, it's far better normally than configure, which depends on each author's whims. 30% of configure scripts are broken badly with custom code. 60% of libtool scripts are busted for FreeBSD, and the number is lots higher if you want to include any platforms *excepting* Linux. I realize that's a strong matter of taste, I'm not forcing you into it, but consider the competition at least, to make it fair. ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@glue.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run picnic (FreeBSD-current) (301) 220-2114 | and jaunt (Solaris7). ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message