[rescue] Total corporate madness (

[vance at neurotica.com]

On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, Eric Dittman wrote:

> > Oh, and I HATE AUTOCONF!!!!
>
> I've pulled out some old source code that I want to get working on a
> more modern system (not my code).  The code is for an X terminal
> emulator, so the source has an Imakefile.  When I use xmkmf I get a
> Makefile that doesn't work.  I would chalk that up to going from one
> platform to another after a several year period has passed, but I can
> remember having the same problem when I was trying to use xmkmf on
> current code a few years ago.

No matter how bad autoconf gets at times, I'm never as pissed as when I'm
trying to use Imake.

Peace...  Sridhar