On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 8:22 PM, <lu...@proxima.alt.za> wrote: > Agreed wholeheartedly. Thing is, It's autoconf that needs careful > redesign:
I don't see any need for autoconf. As one wise person put it to me, "things like configure and autoconf just mean you don't know how to write portable code". I still like to point people at plan 9 ports as an example of a complex system that gets by without this *conf* nonsense. ron