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0 pointseru2y ago0 comments

I remember I had some idea for (GNU) grep, but I couldn't even build the damn thing. It's autotools hell.

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Y_Y2y ago· 1 in thread

Your distro should do this for you! Apt-source or pkgbuild will do fine, you don't need Nix or Gentoo to have a ready-to-go script for building your own version of some pre-packaged tool.

eruOP2y ago

I was trying to build directly from the sources I got from GNU, because that's where I wanted to contribute back to later.

cies2y ago

Another good reason besides mem safety (yay!), license (nay!): build tooling (to improve hackability -- yay!).

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