Djbsort: A new software library for sorting arrays of integers
My job involves a lot of packaging&#x2F;cross-compilation, and djb&#x27;s libraries always seem consistently hostile to the lowly packaging engineer.<p>Would it really be all that much work to package in autotools or CMake? Why do I need his special-snowflake build system with its hard-coded assumptions about system paths?<p>I know that the cult of djb will downvote this into oblivion, but seriously, what is the rationale for a build flow that involves:<p><pre><code>  1. Downloading a text file
  2. Parsing it to get a URL
  3. Making a new user
  4. Symlinking the user&#x27;s HOME directory into the build tree
  5. Run an extremely non-standard build system.
  6. Hope you&#x27;re not trying to cross-compile, because good luck with that.
  7. Guess at where the files came out (hint: it probably won&#x27;t be in FHS locations)
  8. Copy the output yourself once you find it.
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Would it really be that much harder to give us a git repo and a .&#x2F;configure or a CMakeLists.txt?