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> Modern software doesn't build. It's too unportable - > the essence of portability is minimizing dependencies, not > integrating them in droves. For the 30 or 40 libraries required > by anything, one of them is sure to be completely broken on > any platform except Linux. Despite weeks of my life invested > and every assurance it works, it's been since Mozilla 1.1 since > I've successfully built Mozilla on NetBSD - and for the missing > dependencies and broken object hierachies, I think the leaked > Windows source code would be more likely to build and run. > So I run Linux binary emulation and copy binaries and libs wholesale > from Knoppix. It's tragic that this crud won't build apart from > some elaborate but constricting package system that never seems > to work right. Don't these dorks realize that some day Linux > might go out of fashion and people will still want to run this software, > just like CPM, DOS, Ultrix, and Solaris all went out of style? Amen, brother. In case you ever want to experience excruciating pain, try installing Slashcode to some system not the brand of RedHat Chris Nandor doesn't have installed in his box. No offense to Chris and other OSDN guys, the code apparently works somewhere, but trying to install it anywhere else is aking trying to <censored> <censored> <censored> while <censored> wearing <censored> <censored> dildo <censored> <censored>. -- Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@xxx.xx> http://www.iki.fi/jhi/ "There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'. It is 'dead'." -- Jack CohenThere's stuff above here
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