>> applets irrelevant to a target system should be dealt with:
>Look on the bright side, #3 will allow me to incrementally improve the
>code. Applets that build must sort of work.

Then I'm a bit thrown by your opening description of "applets
irrelevant to a target system".  That's what I'm responding to.

One that is relevant but is broken is just that: broken.
Nothing special about that.

I could easily see something like BB that had faces that
were relevant within W32, or Hurd, yet contained plenty of
configured-out (and could never even build) Linux applets that
had no validity in those environments.  I would _really_ hate
to see them all crapped up with half-implemented junk that let
them build anyway, but didn't even try to let them run correctly.
That's like painting over rot.  If you go to the trouble to make
it build, an honest effort to make it run should go with that,
else don't even start.

-- Jim




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