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Subject: Re: 'whence' question and others
From: Vin Shelton <acs@alumni.princeton.edu>
To: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
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Hi, Ray -

On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 11:57 AM, Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca> wrote:
> Is there a decent doc for 'configure', what it does, how it
> works? I see the msg. scroll by, and they are mostly about what
> is and isn't available. One can easily understand that
> there'd be a check for essential stuff, but it seems do do much
> more than that. What makes a reconfigure necessary?

Autoconf is a set of scripts designed to ensure application
portability across multiple platforms.  autoconf's homepage is:
https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/ .  The autoconf manual is here:
https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/index.html .

HTH,
  Vin