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Subject: Re: [9fans] Silly porting fun
From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 20:23:13 -0400
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	The whole GNU configure script idea always seemed like a giant kluge to
	me; an artifact of having to live in a world of various flavours of UNIX.

You make it sound as though it's the only
thing to do when living in such a world.
There are ways to get portable code without
configure.

Russ