On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 5:11 PM, Marc Espie <es...@nerim.net> wrote: > external people regularly ask "but why you don't want to use GNU/m4 GNU/make > GNU/whatever ?" >
External people seem to ask weird questions. I just had to dig into autoconf/auto* because it seems to be a "must have" for a "portable" project. Yuck! It is a reason why I don't understand and at the same time deeply respect our ports people: they have to mess with this stuff all the time! For all the GNU people, here is how a Makefile for hello.c should look like: PROG= hello NOMAN= yes .include <bsd.prog.mk> Yes, you're supposed to provide a man page hello.1 and remove the NOMAN line :) Reyk > Well, latest one, turns out gnu-m4 has reaaaally sloppy regexp handling. > Namely, stuff like > > regexp(`n', `?') > *works* with gm4... > > I know somewhat incredible... our regexpes obviously will not like ? like > that, since it's not a normal character, and gnu regexp handling is such > a bluberring piece of code that it works... very reproducible, very so secure. > > Reminds me of gnu libtool dropping silently stuff it doesn't understand... > > oh wait, of course, *that* regexp is in the autoconf much leading to > gnu libtool. > > Gee, what a surprise...
