On Mon, 7 Oct 2024 at 06:10, Maciej W. Rozycki via cctalk < [email protected]> wrote:
> > FWIW compiling 25 years old a piece of software is even tougher, unless > you use contemporary tools in a contemporary environment, so while the > availability of the source code is surely always worth appreciating, the > challenge to make them run is not any smaller. > That's sort of an odd claim. I bet that you could download an arbitrary piece of software from 25 years ago, run the configure script, and have something working with very few tweaks. The biggest hurdle is probably just going to be disabling all of the guardrails that modern clang/GCC give you (implicit function declarations, implicit int, etc.). The only real hurdle would come when trying to either compile something written for varargs.h or something written in true K&R. At that point we're talking about software written more like 35-40+ years ago. -Henry
