14 Sep
2017
14 Sep
'17
2:53 a.m.
On 12/09/2017, Larry McVoy <lm(a)mcvoy.com> wrote (in part):
And it worked. Back at that time every open source
(or closed source but
sent around) project had makefiles that "just worked" on Sun machines.
MIPS? Well that's IRIX, yeah, you need to do this or that. On a Sun?
It just worked.
Oh, I nearly wept when I read this. Building a typical project
nowadays is so painful -- the makefile works on one particular Linux
distro and woe betide the rest.
N.