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Re: AC_SYS_RESTARTABLE_SYSCALLS
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Harlan Stenn |
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Re: AC_SYS_RESTARTABLE_SYSCALLS |
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Sun, 07 Sep 2003 04:01:54 -0400 |
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> > For me I guess it's a philosophical issue. I think the point of
> > autoconf is to support a wide range of systems, including systems
> > which were created 10 years ago. For example, in 1992 I ported UUCP
> > to SVR2 systems which had been built in 1984; autoconf was very
> > helpful.
>
> Yes, but SVR2 was released in April 1984, so it's now nearly a 20-year
> old system. Nobody ports to SVR2 any more. Or to SVR3 (released
> 1986). These are all dead systems, outside of museums. Perhaps there
> are a few of them running production somewhere, but nobody ports
> software to them.
>
> Ultrix 4.0 is a bit newer, but it's pretty much dead as well. There
> are still a few hobbyists running ancient Ultrix 4.0 castoff hardware,
> I suppose, but the most recent report I found on Usenet of anyone
> trying to port software of any kind to Ultrix 4.0 was dated May 1998.
ntp still gets build on a Lot of ancient systems, and it uses automake and
autoconf.
People may not be porting new code to old systems, but code that has been
around for a while (like t-uucp) may certainly want to take advantage of
recent versions of automake and autoconf. And packages like t-uucp are
often needed on those (increasingly rare) occasions where somebody has to
keep an ancient system running and talking to other machines.
H