On 03/02/2008, at 8:29 PM, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
Autoconf is nothing but a stinking rotten corpse that lives only
because the cult of GNU adherents cannot (no, refuse to) grok the
concept of POSIX.
the problem with POSIX is that it doesn't specify enough.
for instance, if you have to write some code to list the network
interfaces on a (*nix) machine, you have some that provide a specific
function to do so (getifaddrs), some where you should use
SIOCGIFCONF, another where SIOCGLIFCONF is better and one where your
best bet is to hope the /proc filesystem is mounted and read from that.
POSIX doesn't help for things like this. and autoconf, for all its
failings, does.
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