[rescue] GNU != Unix (was: PC v. PeeCees? (was: IBM hard

Eric Dittman dittman at dittman.net
Sun Jul 14 15:06:22 CDT 2002


> > but why does Sun make needs replacing?
> Because a lot of GNU stuff is written by Linux weenies, who don't (want
> to) know that there is somthing beyond the Linux / GNU horizon. gmake
> only Makefiles are one symptom, an other, and much worse, is C code
> that can't be compiled with anything else than gcc. Not to speak about
> "all the world is a 32 bit litle endian machine". etc. etc. etc. 

Portability issues have existed long before Linux was around.
I can remember trying to get software to compile on A/UX that
had problems due to bad programming practices.

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