Received: by taz.hyperreal.com (8.7.5/V2.0) id JAA07163; Wed, 11 Sep 1996 09:14:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shado.jaguNET.com by taz.hyperreal.com (8.7.5/V2.0) with ESMTP id JAA07157; Wed, 11 Sep 1996 09:14:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jim@localhost) by shado.jaguNET.com (8.7.5/jag-2.2) id MAA07518 for new-httpd@hyperreal.com; Wed, 11 Sep 1996 12:14:36 -0400 (EDT) From: Jim Jagielski Message-Id: <199609111614.MAA07518@shado.jaguNET.com> Subject: Re: Config changes consensus? To: new-httpd@hyperreal.com Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 12:14:36 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: from "Mark Shuttleworth" at Sep 11, 96 05:56:04 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-new-httpd@apache.org Precedence: bulk Reply-To: new-httpd@hyperreal.com Mark Shuttleworth wrote: > > Hiya > > How much work is involved in moving to GNU autoconf? That's rapidly > becoming a very widely used tool... > Right now, we would simply use autoconf to enable us to determine the OS/Platform. Thus, our Configure would call configure which would return the "standard" machine-manuf-os string for Configure to parse. We also have a "home-brewed" script that does the same, but isn't as all inclusive as config.guess -- Jim Jagielski << jim@jaguNET.com >> | "There is a time for laughing, ** jaguNET Access Services ** | and a time for not laughing, Email: info@jaguNET.com | and this is not one of them" ++ http://www.jaguNET.com/ +++ Voice/Fax: 410-931-3157 ++