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> where configure is a shell script typically built from autoconf which is an abomination sorry, what is the abomination here?

• foldr 4y ago
  Building (hopefully) portable shell scripts out of M4 macros is pretty hairy.
  • badsectoracula 4y ago
    Portable to what though? Chances are the shell script code generated by Autotools is runnable in more places than Node.js.
    • bitwize 4y ago
      Nobody cares about your doddering Ultrix system, old-timer.
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    • foldr 4y ago
      Yeah that may well be. I'm just saying that it's a pretty horribly hacky way of making a portable script. It can be made to work, of course.