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From: Muttley@DastardlyHQ.org
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Python recompile
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2025 08:12:18 -0000 (UTC)
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On Sun, 9 Mar 2025 11:43:36 +0200
Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> wibbled:
>On Sun, 9 Mar 2025 08:47:28 -0000 (UTC)
>Muttley@DastardlyHQ.org wrote:
>> >So according to you, this should be a piece of piss. OK, I'll try
>> >it:  
>> 
>> I'm not really interested in your straw men.
>> 
>> 
>
>Pay attention that all this slow, complicated 'configure' business
>didn't originate on Windows. It was invented in order to cover variety
>of Unixen. Which (variety) no longer exists, but religious 'free

I know. "configure" used to be fairly rare now its everywhere and I hate it. 
Often it doesn't work anyway which makes me wonder wtf is the point.

>portable between 4 operation systems and 2 CPU architectures that still

TBH unless you're writing embedded assembler, doing some kind of direct byte 
manupulation in words or other code which cares about endian-ness then 
application C code should be CPU agnostic.