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From: "Steve Simon" <steve@quintile.net>
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 20:04:13 +0000
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 development
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My personal disappointment with autoconf, is that there was no simple
file which the package author writes (or even autgenerates)
describing what features their package depends on.

There is a file, but its anything but simple and as it (ab)uses m4
and shell script macros that it "knows" exist. It is not reasonable to
analyse this file on a foreign OS (e.g. plan9) and work out what might
be required to build the package.

-Steve