From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor•com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl•org>
Cc: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5•se>, Git Mailing List <git@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: git binary size...
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 11:16:27 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43C6AB0B.4030408@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0601121033020.3535@g5.osdl.org>
Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>>Repeat after me: "autoconf is crap".
>
> .. which is not to say that some _other_ autoconf-like thing might not be
> good.
>
> The problem I have with autoconf is that it adds absolutely horrendous
> #ifdef's etc all over the place, and the resulting makefile (and the
> config file itself) is just completely unreadable.
>
> The reason autoconf sucks *ss is that it doesn't try to abstract out any
> of the differences between systems, it tries to basically "fix up" the
> differences.
>
> A real abstraction library would be a lot more preferable than autoconf.
> It's kind of the way the git stuff works (ie using things like
> "gitstrcasestr()" and "gitfakemmap()"), but for many of the same reasons
> that autoconf never did a good job, git itself doesn't do a good job (it
> uses "#if" hackery to then do things like "#define mmap gitfakemmap").
>
> But I think the git kind of hackish #ifdef thing is better than the
> _insitutionalized_ horrible autoconf hackery.
>
You can use autoconf in this way, though. See my previous post on the
matter.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-12 19:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-11 18:26 git binary size Linus Torvalds
2006-01-11 19:14 ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-01-11 19:39 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-01-11 19:54 ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-01-11 19:56 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-01-11 20:00 ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-01-11 19:40 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-01-11 19:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-01-11 19:58 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-01-12 10:15 ` Coywolf Qi Hunt
2006-01-12 13:49 ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-01-12 17:37 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-01-12 18:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-01-12 18:32 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-01-12 18:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-01-12 19:16 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2006-01-20 18:00 ` Jon Loeliger
2006-01-12 18:12 ` Linus Torvalds
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