Subject: Re: lib/254: uname(1) output breaks scripts, is unreadable
To: Thorsten Lockert <tholo@SigmaSoft.COM>
From: Chris G. Demetriou <cgd@postgres.Berkeley.EDU>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 05/20/1994 19:36:14
> Complain about the configure scripts that are used by most GNU tools
> then. Including eg. GNATS, Emacs & bash to name a few.
No, *you* complain about them; i don't use them. 8-)
If they do the wrong thing, and assume single-"word" output, they're
*broken*, and should have bugs filed against them. PERIOD.
"We just provide the rope."
cgd
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