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

[Chet Ramey via TUHS]

On 6/22/24 2:15 PM, Luther Johnson wrote:
> It may just mean that someone made some
> fairly ordinary mistake along the way in setting up the build. Or that
> the system on which we are trying to build is different in a way that
> the author did not imagine.

A third possibility is that the author or authors decided not to test for
and support a set of (in this case) older systems. Not a lack of
imagination, but a development priority decision.

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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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