Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: C news: file ownership and running build 47386 times
Message-ID: <1989Nov20.183239.1809@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <3054@splut.conmicro.com> <GNB.89Nov20152916@baby.bby.oz>
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 89 18:32:39 GMT

In article <GNB.89Nov20152916@baby.bby.oz> gnb@bby.oz (Gregory N. Bond) writes:
>Henry, have you considered using lwall's configure suite?

Yes.  We're not impressed by the way it crashes and burns on systems that
are BSD/SysV hybrids, especially since many modern systems are such.  It
has this ingrained notion that the world is divided into 4BSD and System V
and your system *must* be one or the other.  More generally, it tries to
be very clever and consequently has a lot of wired-in assumptions, and
it fails badly when those assumptions fail.  Our stuff needs a lot more
hand-holding but is more portable.
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