Re: configure

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From: Matt Kennel
Date: Wed, 13 May 1992 02:23

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Re: GNU configurations.

Instead of having many configuration files, why not have a
single "GNU compatibility library & include files" so that everybody
can write code to a single standard?  You have to configure the compat
library once.  

This GNU product on its own would be very useful to UNIX programmers.
How many times have you seen people with glue routines to get the time
blah blah blah with #ifdef's around them, with the various types of
ifdef's different from package to package even when they are supposed
to mean the same thing.

The glue routines could even be inlined C functions for the performance
anal.

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-Matt Kennel  		mbk@inls1.ucsd.edu
-Institute for Nonlinear Science, University of California, San Diego

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