14 Sep
2017
14 Sep
'17
5:15 a.m.
On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 08:53:07PM -0400, Nemo wrote:
On 12/09/2017, Larry McVoy <lm(a)mcvoy.com> wrote
(in part):
I tend to just use Debian and Debian derived releases and stuff works for
me.
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.