RE: autoconf in pure MSVC environment?

[Brandon J. Van Every]

Russ Allbery wrote:
>
> That would be neat, but we don't even have that sort of tool for
> cross-compatibility between different Unix varients, let alone to a
> completely different operating system nearly as different
> from Unix as VMS
> is.  If I write any non-trivial software package using
> Autoconf, I still
> have to port it when I move it to IRIX, HP-UX, AIX, etc.

Yes but Autoconf helps you *resolve* those differences quickly, yes?
That's my point.  If Autoconf can't solve the portability problem, it
can at least serve as a good aid to porting.


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