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In Reply to this Note From: <David J. MacKenzie>
>
>> How committed is the GNU project to using the ./configure command
>> prior to make?
>> I have developed an alternative porting scheme that does not require a
>> separate step before running make.  I simply require an environment
>> variable DIALECT to be set to a name describing your environment.
>> An include file details the requirements for the various environments.
>
>Well, there's no harm in describing it, whether or not anyone decides
>to use it eventually.  We're not against real improvements.
>
>How would DIALECT be set?  What if you're on a homogenous network,
>where you need to compile software for multiple platforms?
>Cross-compiling?  Then I don't see that

I have decided to forgo my method in favor of the configure program.
I still believe, however, that my "portable.h" script is superior to
the "ansidecl.h" script distributed with the GNU malloc program.
-David-

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