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In article <1992May13.174308.21906@u.washington.edu> donn@carson.u.washington.edu (Donn Cave) writes:
: | As someone who does a lot of GNU compilation, and who is getting into
: | cross compilation gradually, I don't mind editing Makefiles, but someone
: | who wants automatic configuration to take place after one or two commands
: | would find this method unsatisfactory.
: 
: That's true enough.  I suppose that means that a configuration script for
: groff would ultimately need to ferret out the answers to questions like
: 
:   # Uncomment the next line if you have the mmap() system call (and you
:   # want to use it).
:   #D4=-DHAVE_MMAP
: 
: which sounds like a job for Larry Wall's Configure.  Why do I find editing
: the Makefile so much more straightforward?

Because you know how to read, and have done a significant amount of it,
and have understood most of what you've read.

This cannot be said of most people who install software, unfortunately.
Well, okay, it could be said, but it wouldn't be true...

Larry Wall
lwall@netlabs.com