Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!spool.mu.edu!rex!uflorida!screamer!tscs!tct!chip From: chip@tct.com (Chip Salzenberg) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin Subject: Re: what kind of machine am I Message-ID: <2836E445.1D68@tct.com> Date: 19 May 91 20:47:00 GMT Article-I.D.: tct.2836E445.1D68 References: <7844@auspex.auspex.com> <1991May16.053128.27074@world.std.com> Distribution: na Organization: Teltronics/TCT, Sarasota, FL Lines: 14 According to rowe@cme.nist.gov (Walter Rowe): >The ``Configure'' script distributed with PERL has some really crafty >mechanisms for determining what type of machine you are on. When it is run on a system that is subtly different from one it knows, Configure comes up with lots of plausible but wrong answers. Configure's mechanism -- create config.sh, then run *.SH, which are shell scripts that create Makefile etc. based on config.sh -- is great. Its guessing-game ass_u_me hacks, though, are atrocious. -- Brand X Industries Custodial, Refurbishing and Containment Service: When You Never, Ever Want To See It Again [tm] Chip Salzenberg ,