Re: just one of a million reasons why autoconf is a worthless piece of shit (2)

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Sun, 16 Mar 2008, Paul Smith wrote:
> Second, if you think you can write your own "config script" that will be
> portable to even a small fraction of the systems that an autoconfiscated

LOL!  I think you wanted to say autoconfed/autoconfied here.
Autoconfiscated makes it sound like you agree with the troll :)

> actually _produced_ anything better.  Odd.

There ARE alternatives.  I think they're just as bad (not worse, not better)
than autoconf, though.

> And, if you don't care about your project being portable, then indeed:
> why are you even bothering with autoconf?

Why, it is trendy!

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  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh