Re: Status of Mac OS/X ports of git and cogito?

On Sun, 11 Sep 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:

Patrick and Jason CC:'ed because they also have portability
issues and seem to have good ideas about how they should be
solved.  Linus CC:'ed because he once expressed rather strongly
his dislike about autoconf.

I personally think autoconf is the devils tool, and have had much more 
luck with

 - creating "compat" libraries that implement functions that some 
   configurations don't have.

   Sometimes this involves renaming the function, in order to avoid 
   clashes with broken implementations of same.

 - just ignoring the really broken systems (old HP-UX etc is terminally 
   diseased, and simply not worth worrying about)

autoconf generates an unreadable mess that can't be fixed. Doing it by 
hand at least means you can fix it.

But hey, I don't care that much any more, since I'm not the sucker who 
maintains it ;)

		Linus