* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Plan 9 becomes the proof thereof, if autotools were as successful as
> claimed, it ought to be trivial to port them to a different platform.
> It isn't, nor is it necessary. In porting the code for libtiff and
> geotiff to Plan 9 I added a few "mkfiles" to zlib, the jpeg tools,
> png, gd and eventually libtiff and geotiff. The sum total of these
> mkfiles is probably less than two thousand lines. But it is
> impossible to feed these back to the developers, because they do not
> fit into their philosophical scheme.
Feel free to post the patches to the OSS-QM project:
http://oss-qm.metux.de/
cu
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