Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!rutgers!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!jl42+ From: jl42+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jay Mathew Libove) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Re: v16i034: Larry Wall's Configure generator, etc., Part01/07 Message-ID: Date: 24 Oct 88 18:03:00 GMT Organization: Carnegie Mellon Lines: 19 Well, Larry (for the first time I've ever seen) made a number of very very bad assumptions in his configure distribution. 1) that you have Perl. Perl doesn't run on 80286 machines. Not at all. 2) that your system can deal with a simple makefile unser /bin/csh without SHELL=/bin/sh in the makefile - SCO Xenix SysV/286 v2.2.1 breaks here. You have to have the SHELL=/bin/sh. 3) the Configure that came with the configure package didn't ask for other CFLAGS and LDFLAGS. Well, you need that on segmented machines in order to give the model switches, else you have to hand locate and edit the makefiles to add them. What happenned Larry? Your utilities used to be the best, and most portable programs on the net... Jay Libove ARPA: jl42@andrew.cmu.edu, libove@cs.cmu.edu 5731 Centre Avenue, Apt 3 BITNET: jl42@andrew Pittsburgh, PA 15206 UUCP: uunet!nfsun!libove!libove (412) 362-8983 UUCP: psuvax1!pitt!darth!libove!libove