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Re: Trying to use AUTHOR_DATE

From
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date
Apr 30, 2005, 04:02 UTC
Message-ID
<Pine.LNX.4.58.0504292101230.2296@ppc970.osdl.org>
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<42730061.5010106@zytor.com>
On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
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> 
> For gawd's sake people, just grab a copy of the working code in libcurl, 
> and turn it into a standalone .c file.  It'll even let you merge in 
> future fixes, and you could even use autoconf to use libcurl or the 
> standalone code depending on what's available.

I'll happily depend on libcurl, but I put my foot down on that tool of the devil called "autoconf".

Any package that starts using autoconf eventually becomes a total mess. Don't do it. 

		Linus
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  2. H. Peter AnvinApr 30, 2005
  3. Linus TorvaldsApr 30, 2005
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