Re: ##@!#@# gnu tools

2012-11-16 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 05:53:52PM +0100, Reyk Floeter wrote: On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 5:11 PM, Marc Espie es...@nerim.net wrote: external people regularly ask but why you don't want to use GNU/m4 GNU/make GNU/whatever ? External people seem to ask weird questions. I just had to

Re: ##@!#@# gnu tools

2012-11-16 Thread Stefan Fritsch
On Thursday 15 November 2012, Reyk Floeter wrote: On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 5:11 PM, Marc Espie es...@nerim.net wrote: external people regularly ask but why you don't want to use GNU/m4 GNU/make GNU/whatever ? External people seem to ask weird questions. I just had to dig into

##@!#@# gnu tools

2012-11-15 Thread Marc Espie
external people regularly ask but why you don't want to use GNU/m4 GNU/make GNU/whatever ? Well, latest one, turns out gnu-m4 has relly sloppy regexp handling. Namely, stuff like regexp(`n', `?') *works* with gm4... I know somewhat incredible... our regexpes obviously will not like ? like

Re: ##@!#@# gnu tools

2012-11-15 Thread Reyk Floeter
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 5:11 PM, Marc Espie es...@nerim.net wrote: external people regularly ask but why you don't want to use GNU/m4 GNU/make GNU/whatever ? External people seem to ask weird questions. I just had to dig into autoconf/auto* because it seems to be a must have for a portable

Re: ##@!#@# gnu tools

2012-11-15 Thread Mike Belopuhov
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 5:53 PM, Reyk Floeter r...@openbsd.org wrote: On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 5:11 PM, Marc Espie es...@nerim.net wrote: external people regularly ask but why you don't want to use GNU/m4 GNU/make GNU/whatever ? External people seem to ask weird questions. I just had to

Re: ##@!#@# gnu tools

2012-11-15 Thread Franco Fichtner
On Nov 15, 2012, at 5:53 PM, Reyk Floeter r...@openbsd.org wrote: On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 5:11 PM, Marc Espie es...@nerim.net wrote: external people regularly ask but why you don't want to use GNU/m4 GNU/make GNU/whatever ? External people seem to ask weird questions. I just had to

Re: ##@!#@# gnu tools

2012-11-15 Thread Matthias Kilian
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 05:53:52PM +0100, Reyk Floeter wrote: External people seem to ask weird questions. I just had to dig into autoconf/auto* because it seems to be a must have for a portable project. Here's a simple configure replacement you could use for such projects: