On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 5:40 PM, erik quanstrom <quans...@quanstro.net> wrote: > > i just hate how the rush to use every last new feature > leads to things like gnu configure and autotools, and > ancient warhorses like tex no longer running.
I last built the C version of TeX quite some time ago. At the time, it was quite portable. Imagine my surprise to go to the new stuff and find ... Makefile.in ... configure. I had no idea. So much for a new port :-) ron