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Re: Status of Mac OS/X ports of git and cogito?

From
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date
Sep 11, 2005, 17:46 UTC
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On Sun, 11 Sep 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Patrick and Jason CC:'ed because they also have portability
> issues and seem to have good ideas about how they should be
> solved.  Linus CC:'ed because he once expressed rather strongly
> his dislike about autoconf.

I personally think autoconf is the devils tool, and have had much more luck with

 - creating "compat" libraries that implement functions that some 
   configurations don't have.
   Sometimes this involves renaming the function, in order to avoid 
   clashes with broken implementations of same.
 - just ignoring the really broken systems (old HP-UX etc is terminally 
   diseased, and simply not worth worrying about)

autoconf generates an unreadable mess that can't be fixed. Doing it by hand at least means you can fix it.

But hey, I don't care that much any more, since I'm not the sucker who maintains it ;)

		Linus
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Message 7 of 22 in “Status of Mac OS/X ports of git and cogito?”
  1. John EllsonAug 27, 2005
  2. Junio C HamanoAug 27, 2005
  3. Johannes SchindelinSep 11, 2005
  4. Martin LanghoffSep 11, 2005
  5. Johannes SchindelinSep 11, 2005
  6. Junio C HamanoSep 11, 2005
  7. Linus TorvaldsSep 11, 2005
  8. A Large Angry SCMSep 11, 2005
  9. Junio C HamanoSep 11, 2005
  10. Johannes SchindelinSep 11, 2005
  11. Linus TorvaldsSep 11, 2005
  12. Use int instead of socklen_tJunio C Hamano, Sep 11, 2005
  13. Johannes SchindelinSep 11, 2005
  14. Linus TorvaldsSep 11, 2005
  15. Linus TorvaldsSep 11, 2005
  16. Johannes SchindelinSep 12, 2005
  17. Daniel BarkalowSep 11, 2005
  18. Martin LanghoffSep 11, 2005
  19. Johannes SchindelinSep 11, 2005
  20. Martin LanghoffAug 27, 2005
  21. Martin LanghoffAug 29, 2005
  22. Martin LanghoffAug 30, 2005

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