merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz) (02/03/90)
In article <90Feb1.192946est.27221@snow.white.toronto.edu>, cks@white (Chris Siebenmann) writes: | Perhaps I am just unlucky, but I have never had very much luck in | modifying or understanding a Configure setup once it has been created | (Makefiles, header files, etc). Even the most trivial changes like | changing compilers from "cc" to "gcc -traditional -fwritable-strings" | often require a full re-Configure. | | Worse yet, Configure is interactive and provides no way to save and | restore "canned" configurations. So every time I want to recompile | Perl on all the local types of machines I have to sit there for 10 | minutes per machine typing in the same answers to the same questions | that it asked me last time around. Ever try the magic 'Configure -d' switch? It gets all your defaults from the previous run, and presumes you pressed return a zillion times. Pretty swift. The only questions you answer are "press return" at the beginning and "do you want to run makedepend" at the end. Not trying to defend Larry, but your problem wasn't just *your* problem, and Larry found a way to handle that. Just another Configure user (for Perl, and so on), -- /=Randal L. Schwartz, Stonehenge Consulting Services (503)777-0095 ==========\ | on contract to Intel's iWarp project, Beaverton, Oregon, USA, Sol III | | merlyn@iwarp.intel.com ...!any-MX-mailer-like-uunet!iwarp.intel.com!merlyn | \=Cute Quote: "Welcome to Portland, Oregon, home of the California Raisins!"=/