Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2000 02:47:51 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Charlie Root <root@sense-gold-135.oz.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, al@cool.bioeng.washington.edu Subject: Re: http://www.freebsd.org/mailto.html Message-ID: <20000201024751.H24609@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <200002010338.TAA45937@sense-gold-135.oz.net>; from root@sense-gold-135.oz.net on Mon, Jan 31, 2000 at 07:38:54PM -0800 References: <200002010338.TAA45937@sense-gold-135.oz.net>
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* Charlie Root <root@sense-gold-135.oz.net> [000201 01:58] wrote: > I have been using 3.2 since last summer. I like many things about it. > On the dislike side is the dependence on needing an already digested > makefile. Specifically a source with an autoconf configure often does > not work to make a usable makefile. My recent experience with linux > and solaris is different. They work. This gives rise to a gotcha > when one wants to update. Buy a new CD is the answer. There are alternatives, feel free to do both: 1) Complain to the author of such non-portable software. 2) Check out the ports collection. The whole idea of auto-conf and friends is to help create portable software, however the problem is that people consider "Compiles under solaris, works on Linux" as the definition of 'portability' Clearly some of them need to try a bit harder. Fortunatly there's a large team of very experianced software engineers (the Ports Team) working hard to slap these unportable programs into something that compiles and works under FreeBSD, occasionally these engineers actually improve upon the program so that the FreeBSD 'version' is actually better than the author's. See: http://www.freebsd.org/ports enjoy, -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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