[rescue] GNU != Unix (was: PC v. PeeCees? (was: IBM hard

[Dave McGuire]

On July 14, Eric Dittman wrote:
> > > but why does Sun make needs replacing?
> > Because a lot of GNU stuff is written by Linux weenies, who don't (want
> > to) know that there is somthing beyond the Linux / GNU horizon. gmake
> > only Makefiles are one symptom, an other, and much worse, is C code
> > that can't be compiled with anything else than gcc. Not to speak about
> > "all the world is a 32 bit litle endian machine". etc. etc. etc. 
> 
> Portability issues have existed long before Linux was around.
> I can remember trying to get software to compile on A/UX that
> had problems due to bad programming practices.

  Sure they have.  But this is a slightly different problem...it's
software written specifically for Linux, not for UNIX...and [sometimes
implicitly] advertised as "portable" or "UNIX-like" software.

      -Dave

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