Re: Using Hurd features

[Ludovic Courtès]

"Jonathan S. Shapiro" <address@hidden> writes:

> Autoconf is an abomination for many reasons beyond that one.

Warning: you're on a GNU mailing list.  ;-)

Besides, I'd be glad to hear about your precise griefs against Autoconf.
It turns out that before Autoconf existed, there was no generic way to
look for features available on Unix-like platforms.  People were either
not porting their software or implementing ad hoc things.  The ``Goat
Book'' explains this quite well[0].

Autoconf is a good tool to help port things across Unix-like platform --
no wonder it's not that helpful when trying to port software, say, to
EROS.  ;-)

Thanks,
Ludovic.

[0] http://sourceware.org/autobook/