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Karl DenningerDec 5, 1997 4:48 am 
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Terry LambertDec 7, 1997 1:47 pm 
Nate WilliamsDec 7, 1997 11:01 pm 
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Philippe RegnauldApr 27, 1998 6:16 am 
Subject:Re: Diffs to support RAIDframe on FreeBSD
From:Nate Williams (na@mt.sri.com)
Date:Dec 7, 1997 11:01:36 pm
List:org.freebsd.freebsd-current

Note that the use of Imake (the correct way to do cross-platform configuration...

ROTFL. You've *GOT* to be kidding, right?

Imake is one of those 'evil daemon spawned utilties from the pit of hell that should be killed with a wooden stake through the heart'. I've seen many a good engineer who was given that line reduced to a babbling idiot that ended up giving up software engineering and took up much safer sports like kick-boxing and arena fighting. :)

It's *MUCH* easier to build your own distributed 'make' program that does this than to use Imake with anything *signficantly* large. Dinky X programs don't count, and since X doesn't compile on non-Unix platforms it doesn't count.

Nate