From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 04:02:45 GMT
Subject: Re: Trying to use AUTHOR_DATE
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0504292101230.2296@ppc970.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <42730061.5010106@zytor.com>



On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
> 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