> while the code for autoconf has ballooned, it's support for non linux > systems has decreased. i believe the folk who maintain it envision it > as a way to support a vast matrix of packages, each trying to use the > very most bleeding edge features of the others on linux.
That may be how he intends it, but compiling on several versions of Gentoo, Debian, and Suse isn't what I would call "ported to a wide variety of platforms". And if using all the backward-incompatible, useless features of every library imaginable is what portability means in newspeak, then portability is to blame for most of the pain of keeping Linux systems up to date. But then, I guess that's kind of what he's saying (!). You are in a maze of twisty little illogics, all ... um ... illogical. Micah
