On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 8:22 PM,  <lu...@proxima.alt.za> wrote:

> Agreed wholeheartedly.  Thing is, It's autoconf that needs careful
> redesign:

I don't see any need for autoconf. As one wise person put it to me,
"things like configure and autoconf just mean you don't know how to
write portable code".

I still like to point people at plan 9 ports as an example of a
complex system that gets by without this *conf* nonsense.

ron

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