Re: Trying to use AUTHOR_DATE

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: 2005-04-30 14:02:45
On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
> For gawd's sake people, just grab a copy of the working code in libcurl, 
> and turn it into a standalone .c file.  It'll even let you merge in 
> future fixes, and you could even use autoconf to use libcurl or the 
> standalone code depending on what's available.

I'll happily depend on libcurl, but I put my foot down on that tool of the 
devil called "autoconf".

Any package that starts using autoconf eventually becomes a total mess. 
Don't do it. 

		Linus
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