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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: The Tragedy Of systemd
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On Wed, 9 Oct 2024 16:10:05 +0100, Andy Burns wrote:

> Familiarity with the old tends to make us dislike the new, my old 
> knowledge was applicable across xenix, OSF/1, HPUX, AIX, multiple linux 
> flavours

GNU Autotools was a build system compatible across all the old Unix 
flavours, as well as current *nixes. It was full of workarounds for all 
the little bugs and quirks in all those old flavours. Look at the 
instructions if you wanted to write your own m4 macros -- they list all 
the things that you’d think are reasonable and standard, but that you have 
to avoid to ensure your shell-script snippets are portable across Unixes.

You probably never knew that. And nowadays, there is less and less need to 
know that.