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From: cudep@warwick.ac.uk (Ian Dickinson)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Installation woes (Re: Passing on unwanted groups)
Message-ID: <1990Aug30.164310.8647@warwick.ac.uk>
Date: 30 Aug 90 16:43:10 GMT
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In article <1990Aug24.165844.3563@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
>We find it very interesting that we get mail occasionally saying "thank god
>you didn't use Configure!".  All that automatic guesswork is not infrequently
>wrong, and is *invariably* wrong if you are trying to configure for a machine
>other than the one you are running on... which is increasingly common in
>these network-oriented days.

All very well and good - but why isn't the actual build
seperated from installation a bit more?

This is the one real nasty thing about building Cnews.
Not everyone likes building software as a (semi)privilidged user (ie. news)
and I'd like to build it as myself, and THEN install as root and news.
This is not as easy as it should be (IMHO).

As far as Configure goes - I've got used to its mistakes,
but it's not that easy for a beginner who doesn't know his machine too well.

Cheers,
--
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