Re: The Tragedy Of systemd

On Wed, 9 Oct 2024 16:10:05 +0100, Andy Burns wrote:

Familiarity with the old tends to make us dislike the new, my old
knowledge was applicable across xenix, OSF/1, HPUX, AIX, multiple linux
flavours

GNU Autotools was a build system compatible across all the old Unix
flavours, as well as current *nixes. It was full of workarounds for all
the little bugs and quirks in all those old flavours. Look at the
instructions if you wanted to write your own m4 macros -- they list all
the things that you’d think are reasonable and standard, but that you have
to avoid to ensure your shell-script snippets are portable across Unixes.

You probably never knew that. And nowadays, there is less and less need to
know that.