[TUHS] Building programs (Re: Version 256 of systemd boasts '42% less Unix philosophy' The Register

[G. Branden Robinson]

At 2024-06-20T17:54:22-0700, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> At Fri, 21 Jun 2024 10:34:46 +1000, Alexis <flexibeast at gmail.com> wrote:
> > There's a cross-project [autoconf] cache? That is, a cache not just
> > for the project for which autoconf was run, but for _all_ software
> > built on that machine?
> 
> Indeed there is.  Nothing new about it either.  It's been around for two
> decades or more.
[...]
> It can be a bit fragile, especially in the "gradually accumulates" way
> of using it (which is why pkgsrc avoids that), but usually the fault
> lies squarely on the shoulders of developers who either don't read the
> Autoconf documentation, or think that somehow they're smarter than
> Autoconf and the many decades of lore it encodes.

Hard to believe such people exist!

Regards,
Branden
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