On 10/16/2014 03:08 PM, Nicolas B. Pierron wrote:> On 10/16/2014 02:32 PM,
Nicholas Nethercote wrote:
>> I was wondering what people think is the worst piece of code in the
>> entire Mozilla codebase. I'll leave the exact meanings of "worst" and
>> "piece of code" unspecified...
>
> Simple, any file named configure.in in the code base, because (1) deprecated
> tools, and because this is the thing that I always have to run when a (2)
build-directory.
(1) we use deprecated tools
(2) always have to run it when we make a new build-directory.
>
> “configure does not scale—never!—” [1]
>
> [1] http://hubble.gforge.inria.fr/parallel-builds.html
>
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Nicolas B. Pierron
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