From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: Trying to use AUTHOR_DATE Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 21:02:45 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <42730061.5010106@zytor.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: "Luck, Tony" , Edgar Toernig , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Apr 30 05:55:42 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DRj4s-0000aG-Sb for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sat, 30 Apr 2005 05:55:39 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262502AbVD3EBE (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Apr 2005 00:01:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262503AbVD3EBE (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Apr 2005 00:01:04 -0400 Received: from fire.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:45481 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262502AbVD3EBD (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Apr 2005 00:01:03 -0400 Received: from shell0.pdx.osdl.net (fw.osdl.org [65.172.181.6]) by smtp.osdl.org (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id j3U40ks4010840 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Fri, 29 Apr 2005 21:00:49 -0700 Received: from localhost (shell0.pdx.osdl.net [10.9.0.31]) by shell0.pdx.osdl.net (8.13.1/8.11.6) with ESMTP id j3U40jLD021230; Fri, 29 Apr 2005 21:00:45 -0700 To: "H. Peter Anvin" In-Reply-To: <42730061.5010106@zytor.com> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0 required=5 tests= X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63-osdl_revision__1.35__ X-MIMEDefang-Filter: osdl$Revision: 1.109 $ X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.36 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > For gawd's sake people, just grab a copy of the working code in libcurl, > and turn it into a standalone .c file. It'll even let you merge in > future fixes, and you could even use autoconf to use libcurl or the > standalone code depending on what's available. I'll happily depend on libcurl, but I put my foot down on that tool of the devil called "autoconf". Any package that starts using autoconf eventually becomes a total mess. Don't do it. Linus