On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 10:51 PM, Neil D. Cerutti <ne...@norwich.edu> wrote: > C itself is very simple (albeit not simple to use). But I contend you do > need to be a Medieval Scholar to compile and link it. My mind boggles > watching a ./configure vomit ASCII all over my screen. I have to avert my > eyes, make a wish, and make install. ;)
Bah, it's more fun to actually read it, and to imagine what manner of system might fail some of those tests :) checking for candle... no checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking for stdlib.h... yes checking for windows.h usability... no checking for windows.h presence... no (these last two on a system that had already been probed and found to be Linux) And of course: checking whether build environment is sane... http://xkcd.com/371/ ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
