Configure scripts

[gaf at mediaone.net (Jerry Feldman)]

I'll look into it. I am not the guy writing the scripts, just using them.

On 24 May 99, at 1:46, Chuck Young <cyoung at bbnplanet.com> wrote:

> Would the notion od O/S fingerprinting play into what you are doing?  I
> read about it all the time in firewalling lists; should be searchable on
> altavista, etc.  HTH,
> 
> Chuck Young
> GTE Internetworking
> 
> On Sun, 23 May 1999, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> 
> > Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 10:55:22 -0400
> > From: Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
> > To: discuss at blu.org
> > Subject: Re: Configure scripts 
> > 
> > I would like to thank everyone who responded. While my original question
> > was in terms of a distribuiton independent method, the intent was to
> > have a Unix-wide method. Normally, when I put things out to the
> > community, I may already know the answer, but I look for either
> > confirmaiton that this is the right way, or caveats, or alternatives.
> > Basically, I have been complaining about the way the configure scripts
> > were written for one of the products I partially develop because it
> > breaks every time I upgrade my Alpha Linux. After complaining for about
> > 6 months, I finally got the "yeah, we need to fix this, suggest a better
> > way". Currently, we have targets for Solaris (Intel and Sparc), Debian
> > GNU/Linux, Red Hat Linux/Alpha. 
> > 
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