It it really expected that Autotools should support 32 year old
systems?
This feels counter-productive to me.
I have been told by several people (who have much more self-esteem
than me) that a build tool called 'cmake' is far more portable than
Autotools so maybe we should make support for 32 year old systems
cmake's responsibility?
I am fond of systems from the early/mid '90s but it seems better to
support POSIX compliant systems with newer software.
People who have somehow figured out how to keep old hardware running
without disk drives, electrolytic capacitors, or fans, can install
older GNU software first in order to bootstrap sufficiently to a
sufficient level of POSIX compliance.
The well-built systems I bought prior to 2007 are already dead or
difficult to repair.
I do not see any reason to spend any time at all supporting an OS
older than 2008.
Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
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