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> Date: Mon, 20 Nov 89 18:32:39 GMT In article 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. -- A bit of tolerance is worth a | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology megabyte of flaming. | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu