On Jul 20, 2005, at 1:46 AM, Charles Forsyth wrote:
So, is it a proper use of the word ironic if autoconf, designed
to make
code location-independent, is itself failing because autoconf
itself has
become very version-sensitive? Inquiring non-english-majors want
to know!
it might be `ironic' if `autoconf' had ever met its notional
specification.
`autoconf' is not even an `oxymoron', just a `moron'. actually, i
suppose `idiot savant' might
be most accurate: it's really a collection of all the recipes
they've met so far, but give
it something new or a revision of something old, and it is
completely lost.
it has far too many peculiar details built in to it.
Yep, and getting new OSes supported "upstream" is way more of a
hassle than it should be
for such a tool.
I doubt DragonflyBSD ever gets its stuff detected or installed
properly without patching.
Dave
