----- Original Message ----- From: "Diane Holt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Personally, I find "configure" to be one of the yuckiest mangled mess of > spaghetti-ed crud I've ever run into (and I've run into a considerable > amount of mangled crud over the years, so that's saying quite a lot). mmm. worst build process I've ever seen was for a BIOS designed to build for a series of computers -original source files from a BIOS vendor -patches made by the OEM manufacturer somewhere or other -patches made atop those by the actual vendor most functions, case options were ifdef'd out to keep the rom size down The build process was one of taking the original files, copying over the vendor/OEM patch files then any model specific overrwrites then running the makefile which was an old NMAKE 1.x file (the brain dead DOS make app from MS that didnt understand dependencies). Oh, and half that makefile was generated on the fly from configuration settings. End result: the only way to tell if a line was in the build was to insert a typo and see if it broke the build. Debugging? That was what the keyboard lights were for. -Steve
