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From: mwm@eris.berkeley.edu (Mike (I'll think of something yet) Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: BISON, GCC, and the GNU public license. (Re: increasing yacc states)
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Date: 4 Aug 89 00:17:20 GMT
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In article <1448@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
<  I think that a lot of people who are most vocal on this are either
<(a) people who have never sold a piece of software, or (b) have never
<taken the time to properly give software away, with a man page,
<makefile, ifdefs for at least BSD and USG, etc.

I think yo'ure talking through your hat. I know the most vocal two of
us have both 1) sold software, and 2) properly given it away.

BTW, your definition of "proper" and mine differ. It should be
properly ifdef'ed for all distinct OS's it runs on. If you're
unfortunate enough to be working with an OS that has multiple
different variations, you should ifdef it on _features_, not on
variations. Features tend to drift between variations of an OS, but
not across OSs.

While we're at it, if you're going to do it right, you should provide
a script that tweaks the config files for any implementation it runs
on, so that a typical installation process would look like:

	configfor sun
	make
	make install


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