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From: gamiddle@maytag.waterloo.edu (Guy Middleton)
Subject: Re: Installation woes (Re: Passing on unwanted groups)
Message-ID: <1990Aug26.195308.11696@maytag.waterloo.edu>
Organization: University of Waterloo Software Commando Squad
References: <1990Aug15.164651.26664@zoo.toronto.edu> <1990Aug21.161506.21784@zoo.toronto.edu> <3ND5KOC@xds13.ferranti.com> <5fq0f2.zm6@smurf.sub.org>
Date: Sun, 26 Aug 90 19:53:08 GMT
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In article <5fq0f2.zm6@smurf.sub.org> urlichs@smurf.sub.org (Matthias Urlichs) writes:
> Larrys config stuff finds out all about the machine you don't want to know
> anyway, and C news asks you. Granted that configure doesn't work everywhere,
> but in the majority of standard cases it's great.

This is exactly why I don't like Configure.  I have ten different architecture
here, and a canned set of Build-answers for each one.  I can maintain
everything from a single machine, instead of running Configure ten times every
time I need to recompile.