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Re: Extending C with GC?

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From Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com>
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Subject Re: Extending C with GC?
Date Mon, 8 Aug 2016 15:26:05 +1200
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On 08/ 8/16 09:23 AM, BartC wrote:
> On 07/08/2016 21:11, Ian Collins wrote:
>> On 08/ 8/16 07:56 AM, BartC wrote:
>>> On 07/08/2016 20:37, Ian Collins wrote:
>>>> On 08/ 7/16 10:34 PM, BartC wrote:
>>>
>>>>> On my machine that doesn't work. Because it's designed to be meaningful
>>>>> only on Linux or something that emulates Linux.
>>>>
>>>> Nope, the process predates Linux.
>>>
>>> Linux, Unix, whatever.
>>
>> The whatever is important.
>>
>>>> One reason configure scripts are so big is to take into account all of
>>>> the possible (and often long dead) systems the code might get built on.
>>>
>>> Are we still talking about C code? And how exactly does it take account
>>> of these systems? Is the application written in C, or is it actually
>>> written in Bash?
>>
>> By checking the system headers, checking what libraries and what version
>> of those libraries are installed, checking what compilers (and which
>> versions) are installed, checking the system architecture, system OS
>> (and version) and what ever else is required to build the code.
>
> And that takes tens of thousands of lines of of code?

Who cares?  Do you care how many lines of code it takes to open a web page?

> What does it do with the result? What's the role of make files in all
> this, or is that yet another level?

You know full well what it does.

>>> But I'm told I can't just type 'cc file.c' because I first have to run a
>>> script, in a language
>>
>> The script is in the lowest common denominator language.  Every system
>> the code is targeted at will have it.
>
> Well, my system doesn't. Importing most of Linux to make it 'have' it
> doesn't count. And if I did have it, I still wouldn't want it. I like to
> have my own streamlined build procedures.

So keep on pushing shit up hill and stop whinging.

> This configure/make palaver is very unfriendly outside the Linux world
> and is overkill IMO. It's taking something that could be very simple,
> and making it impossible.

It's friendly everywhere except for the Windows world for users too pig 
headed to install Cygwin...

-- 
Ian

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