I do want to test on ARM hardware other than a Pi, but that will have to come
later. I keep forgetting that Citadel is, for some reason, staggeringly popular
on Raspberry Pi. I don't know why; all I know is that when I break the build,
I hear about it. And I've finally nailed down that long-standing bug that
was making attachments get messed up on low-spec systems.
I'm going to need some help with QA on FreeBSD and I'm hoping that
LadySerenaKitty
is willing to continue offering a bit of time in that area.
This move is kind of a big deal. I had to temper my language in the
announcement,
but GNU Autotools is a gigantic piece of crap and it should be locked in a
room with Richard Stallman until it commits ritual seppuku. Overgrown, overly
complex, creates far more problems than it solves, good riddance. The fact
that I was able to replace thousands of lines of autoconf with half
a screenful of shell script and still cover 99.9% of the target systems out
there, is sufficient argument for taking autotools out behind the barn and
putting it out of our misery.
Obviously not everyone can manage with such a simple build system. But I'll
bet most can.
