[OT: Perl Configure] (was Re: autoconf/configure information sources?)
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 03:11:55PM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote:
> Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net> writes:
>
> > I'm currently unable to complete packaging the new Atari800 source because
> > of questions asked by configure. There is no manpage for configure, but I
> > guess that is expected, as it is a "constructed" program.
>
> Is that "Configure", or "configure"? I've never seen configure (ie,
> gnu-style, whether created by autoconf or not) ask questions, but
> Configure (courtesy Larry Wall) does so all the time.
Yes. Used to make me laugh, the Configure script. Of course, that
was back before I discovered binary packaging.
Apropos of Configure:
http://blueberry.jellybean.co.uk/~jules/perl/tpj10-100.gif
made me laugh, anyhow.
Jules
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