Re: Autoconf and so forth

[Peter da Silva]

On 17-Oct-2007, at 01:47, Michael G Schwern wrote:
As there is no such thing as portable shell code across the  
platforms named,
you must generate tailored code for each platform and make version,  
you are
failing to appreciate the magnitude of the problem.

The problem is nowhere near as hateful as writing the application to  
be portable across all those platforms in the first place.