Hi all,
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 07:22:01PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> I liked your response so much that I extracted some of the gems of
> wisdom from this thread, and am checking the following into the
> manual.
many thanks to both of you, Paul and Eric.
I searched web for the source of the quotation paraphrased here.
Attached below please find my humble contribution.
OK to commit?
Stepan
diff --git a/doc/autoconf.texi b/doc/autoconf.texi
index 7cee3db..2f3efca 100644
--- a/doc/autoconf.texi
+++ b/doc/autoconf.texi
@@ -678,10 +678,12 @@ reason, it needs to be changed in only one place; all of the
configuration scripts can be regenerated automatically to take advantage
of the updated code.
-Those who do not understand Autoconf are doomed to reinvent it. The
-primary goal of Autoconf is making the @emph{user's} life easier; making
-the @emph{maintainer's} life easier is only a secondary goal. Put
-another way, the primary goal is not to make the generation of
+@c "Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly."
+@c --Henry Spencer, 1987 (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy)
+Those who do not understand Autoconf are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
+The primary goal of Autoconf is making the @emph{user's} life easier;
+making the @emph{maintainer's} life easier is only a secondary goal.
+Put another way, the primary goal is not to make the generation of
@file{configure} automatic for package maintainers (although patches
along that front are welcome, since package maintainers form the user
base of Autoconf); rather, the goal is to make @file{configure}
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