I wonder if the objections to how p9p builds is the now-common syndrome
of viewing the world through Linux and/or GNU eyes only. I see this
frequently -- packages modified to be better on linux, or under some
wacky GNU build environment, which then break on other OSes.
gint anyone?
It's the new definition of portable -- "It builds fine on all versions
of gentoo I've tried, but only with kernel 2.6.9".
p9p is remarkable to me in that it builds on anything, without automake,
configure, autoconfig, dev-wrappers, and that other horrible stuff. You
just type make. What a concept!
GNU has somehow managed to create a "portability environment" which is
far less portable and and far less convenient than p9p, but also about
100 times harder to deal with. NOT progress. There's a lesson in p9p
that I wish the GNU world would heed.
Plus, if you only want one piece, build it all anyway -- it's fast!
I don't see the problem.
ron
