Re: On Compatibility

[Alfred M\. Szmidt]

   His point is valid in spite of the fact that the *existence* of the
   GNU project is a counter-example showing that it *is* possible to
   build a system from scratch!

Sure, and it took the GNU project 21 years to get this far, and there
still isn't a proper release of the GNU system.

     2. The hardest part in porting GTK is porting autoconf, because
        autoconf is *incredibly* POSIX dependent.

Porting autoconf has nothing to do with porting GTK.  You don't need
autoconf to configure, build, port and run GTK.

   Separately, we will want to do a full POSIX compatibility box for
   execution of legacy applications.

It isn't acceptable to classify GNU programs as legacy applications on
the primary system that they are supposed to run on and are designed
for.