[TUHS] Version 256 of systemd boasts '42% less Unix philosophy' The Register

[Chet Ramey via TUHS]

On 6/21/24 1:31 PM, Phil Budne wrote:

> The REAL evil of autotools is that it builds on the premise that
> all problems can be solved using #ifdef.

That's certainly the most common idiom, and one that most autotools users
(including me) predominantly use, but it's not the only way. If you want
to provide a larger distribution, you can use AC_REPLACE_FUNCS for things
that a particular target doesn't provide and isolate the complexity there.
gnulib is a big help here.

Or you can provide a compatibility layer and push the complexity down to it.

-- 
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		 ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    chet at case.edu    http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/

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