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From: Donn Cave
Date: Mon, 11 May 1992 20:39

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I see in the GNUS bulletin that there's thought of unifying "configure".
Anyone else have any favorites among the various GNU configures?

My personal favorite is the one that comes with fileutils, et al.  It works,
it's fairly fast and I haven't generally found it to require any fiddling at
all.

Another that ranks high in my esteem is the one that comes with groff.  It's
called "Makefile".

Neither of the above follows the model of gcc's "configure", but I'm not
saying that one model is better than another.  Rather, it seems pretty clear
that the best way to handle this problem depends on the package.

	Donn Cave, University Computing Services, University of Washington
	donn@cac.washington.edu

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