On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 10:46 PM, Charlie Kester <corky1...@comcast.net> wrote: > On Mon 01 Feb 2010 at 13:30:00 PST Uriel wrote: >> >> On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 2:06 PM, anonymous <aim0s...@lavabit.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> Having said that, in case of rfork vice versa from FreeBSD. >>> >>> Yes, I am talking about FreeBSD. With configure you can make your >>> program portable between FreeBSD and Linux. Most probably other >>> systems won't implement clone/rfork their own way so program will be >>> portable between all systems with some kind of rfork implementation. >> >> This is bullshit, one of the reasons I gave up using FreeBSD long ago >> is because so much crap software that used auto*hell would blow up >> when trying to build it on FreeBSD, and trying to fix up auto*hell so >> the damned thing would build was a fucking nightmare. > > Perhaps that was a problem "long ago" but it doesn't seem to be a > problem *now*. I've been using FreeBSD since release 7.0 and have never > had a problem with configure.
How many apps have you installed *not* from the ports tree that use auto*hell? Note that this issue has *zero* to do with FreeBSD and all to do with braindead auto*hell scripts. That said, FreeBSD has been an ever growing pile of shit since the 4.x series. uriel
