On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 11:26:44PM +0000, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote:
[...]
> Look also at portability and
> not reducing the current impressive number of platforms supported by
> Exim (no, adding autoconf does *not* make your code magically portable).
[...]
;-) I've read about tons of failure-to-build-from-source bugs of
packages using autoconf/make on the list of release-critical bugs for
Debian, while exim just works. - Of course this depends on the
cluefulness of Phil, but auto* seems to be quite easy to do wrong,
also.
cu andreas
