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kkielhofner
on Aug 14, 2022
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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Makefiles
GNU autoconf was first released a few months before Linux.
Is there some older implementation/standard/practice of ./configure before autoconf?
compiler-guy
on Aug 15, 2022
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Autoconf makes it convenient to write configure scripts. Configure scripts existed long before autoconf, but were written piecemeal.
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Is there some older implementation/standard/practice of ./configure before autoconf?