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| From: | Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1@netscape.net> |
| Newsgroups: | comp.compilers |
| Date: | Fri, 31 Mar 2023 07:49:46 +0200 |
| Organization: | Compilers Central |
| References: | 23-03-001 23-03-017 23-03-022 23-03-029 23-03-032 |
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| Keywords: | tools |
| Posted-Date: | 31 Mar 2023 07:42:53 EDT |
| In-Reply-To: | 23-03-032 |
On 3/28/23 4:42 PM, Aharon Robbins wrote:
> In article 23-03-029,
> Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1@netscape.net> wrote:
>> My impression was that the FSF favors C and ./configure for "portable"
>> code.
>
> Like many things, this is the result of evolution. Autoconf is well
> over 20 years old, and when it was created the ISO C and POSIX standards
> had not yet spread throughout the Unix/Windows/macOS world. It and the
> rest of the autotools solved a real problem.
About 20 years ago I could not build any open source program on Windows.
Messages like "Compiler can not build executables" popped up when using
MinGW or Cygwin. I ended up in ./configure in a Linux VM and fixing the
resulting compiler errors manually on Windows. Without that trick I had
no chance to load the "portable" source code into any development
environment for inspection in readable (compilable) form. Often I had
the impression that the author wanted the program not for use on Windows
machines. Kind of "source open for specific OS only" :-(
DoDi
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