On Fri, 2005-08-12 at 10:55 +0200, Andreas Fester wrote: > configure *is* the platform independant configure script, > so why ever should I need to create it on my specific platform? Perhaps because somebody found out that the Autotools are buggy in the time frame between configure was built and when the package is built. This frame could actually get quite big. Kind regards, Philipp Kern