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Before autoconf there was metaconfig, which was Larry Wall’s portability support for rn and perl.
by fanf2 3y ago
Before autoconf there was metaconfig, which was Larry Wall’s portability support for rn and perl.
- KWxIUElW8Xt0tD9 3y agoBell Labs had a very nice portability framework also -- there was a Cygwin-like product called U/WIN that made extensive use of it -- might find it associated with ksh93 maybe. Speaking of Bell Labs, there are some great ideas for a build tool in the Bell Labs "nmake" tool - I believe it was originally created to speed up ESS5 switch builds, which took 3 days before make. It has programmable header file scanning for example, a shell coprocess to avoid all the fork/exec of standard make, build state files, lots of other things I have forgotten.