Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wiley!deneva!venice!baur
From: baur@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM (Steven L. Baur)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Elm Configure
Message-ID: <642@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM>
Date: 28 Jun 90 10:44:43 GMT
Reply-To: baur@venice.sedd.trw.com (Steven L. Baur)
Organization: TRW Systems Engineering & Development Division, Redondo Beach, CA
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I have some questions and observations about the Elm Configure script.

The weirdest one is the combination of the questions about whether you will
run the resulting binaries on multiple machines and whether the hostname
should be compiled in.

Configure asks the latter question after you have already answered Yes to
the former.  This is probably a bug, but maybe unavoidable.

Who runs Elm on just one machine, and wants everything (including
~ pathnames) hardcoded?

Are there any installations out there that *have* to have the hostname
hardcoded?  The wording of that question (present in the Dave Taylor days)
sounds like he had an axe to grind somewhere.

Interesting is the fact that the domainname is hardcoded into the
configuration regardless, so I guess this precludes copied binaries of
elm into different e-mail domains.  This has some significance (to me)
because I cannot put out binaries for anonymous FTP within trw.com.

Does anybody care about this?

Just asking.

"If it ain't broke, don't fix it."
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steve	baur@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM