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From: "Bruce Ellis" <brucee@chunder.com>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] configure misery
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Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 09:51:49 +1100
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Not known to work reliably on any system, but the code is huge.
Open Sores that won't heal.  Don't trust a shell script larger than
your kernel!

brucee
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Miller" <miller@hamnavoe.demon.co.uk>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 12:18 PM
Subject: Re: [9fans] configure misery


> > ; ls -lt */configure
> > --rwxr--r-- M 108286 geoff collyer 716640 May 17 21:53 imagemagick/configure
> > --rwx------ M 108286 geoff collyer 100023 Nov  7  2000 bochs/configure
> > --rwxr-xr-x M 108286 geoff collyer  33106 Apr 27  1996 groff-1.09/configure
> >
> > It really doesn't need a 23,000-line shell script to set up some
> > makefiles and generate a few #define lines.
>
> Moreover, if you google for imagemagick configure it appears that it doesn't
> work properly even on Linux.