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 wri
-->"erik" == erik quanstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
erik> the format for a dial string is proto!server!port.
erik> e.g. tcp!atlas.coraid.com!http. going with your style this
erik> would be
erik> 9p://tcp!localhost!service/my/path
erik> a more regular name would be
erik>
-->"Steve" == Steve Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Steve> How we can sidestep autohell?
autohell is now a 3-headed beast: automake, autoconf and libtool, where
some of those are actually multiple components.
automake is PERL thing that takes a "simplified" Makefile.am, and emits
a Makefile.
-->"Jack" == Jack Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Jack> Dang, can't find it, but there's some startup that's basically
Jack> building huge, single-board MIPS clusters using a mix of newer
Jack> chips for the interconnects and networking to keep latency down,
Jack> and older CPUs to kee
-->"leb" == Lawrence E Bakst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
leb> Alpha is gone, Sparc is Sun only, MIPs might survive as an
leb> embedded architecture. The big 3 going forward are X86, ARM, and
leb> PPC as someone else mentioned.
MIPS has had somewhat of a resurgence recently, with many domest
-->"Russ" == Russ Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Russ> When I'm doing a lot of typing and mouse motion at the same
Russ> time, I typically just type with one hand and leave the other
Russ> hand on the mouse. It's not as fast but it's just fine.
i've always found mice inefficient.
my plan
-->"Lyndon" == Lyndon Nerenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Lyndon> If you weed out the bits that are already in Posix
one problem with a lot of code is that it's also "portable" to Windows.
using a manually-created config.h, and AC_REPLACE_FUNCS, the source
itself can maintain some internal co
