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From: syd@DSI.COM (Syd Weinstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: Unix Configure script
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Message-ID: <1991Apr11.003406.17481@DSI.COM>
Date: 11 Apr 91 00:34:06 GMT
References: <1991Apr10.214750.19556@news.iastate.edu>
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Organization: Datacomp Systems, Inc.  Huntingdon Valley, PA
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john@iastate.edu (Hascall John Paul) writes:
>   Once upon a time, I installed a package I received from the net and it
>had this terribly nifty script (named "Configure" as I recall) which
>looked around, and asked several questions, and learned all sorts of things
>about the system it was running on (as a prelude to installing whatever
>I was installing).
Configure is a product of "Off the Wall Software" a.k.a Larry Wall
of rn, patch and perl fame.

It is a program in Perl called metaconfig that writes the giant
Configure shell script based on what things your application uses.

It was distributed a long while back as part of the dist 2.0 package
and is due for an upgrade some time in the not too distant future.

dist 2.0 is available at any comp.sources.unix archive site or via
larrys home machine via ftp, devvax.Jpl.Nasa.Gov
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