"Lyndon" == Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon(_at_)orthanc(_dot_)ca> writes:
Lyndon> On 10-11-03 11:45 AM, Jon Steinhart wrote:
>> So let's figure out what's
>> really important. To me, that's Linux.
Lyndon> You are a lonely voice in a large crowd.
Lyndon> I have seven servers at home. None of them run Linux. I
Lyndon> currently run nmh on multiple major releases of FreeBSD,
Lyndon> Solaris, and OpenBSD. In the
Lyndon> not too distant past I used it on HP/UX, AIX, and Irix.
Lyndon> The reason I brought up the POSIX discussion is because I'm
Lyndon> currently getting nmh to run (under ape) on Plan 9, which
Lyndon> will never run autoconf
Lyndon> and is a better place for it.
autoconf used to buy us a lot in the days when HPUX and AIX and IRIX
couldn't actually get POSIX right. Those systems are mostly dead,
except for a few who keep those systems around for fun.
For the rest of us (including OSX, FreeBSD, Solaris, NetBSD, and
yes.. Linux), POSIX is enough.
I am not in favour of ripping autoconf, but I am also not in favour of
maintaining it. I'd rather just have Makefile.posix checked in, and use
that if I want, and if autoconf rots, oh well.
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