mgetty should use autoconf and automake

Russell Nelson (nelson@crynwr.com)
Thu, 16 Jul 1998 00:14:43 +0200


Gert Doering writes:
 > Besides trivial things (path names), most of the compile time
 > configuration issues for mgetty are things that a program just cannot
 > determine automatically, 'cause they are "policy" options.

Then don't do the configuration at compile time.  I much prefer this:

compile;
install;
do tweak; until working

over this:

do tweak; compile; install; until working

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