I did the following patch file to put my changes to configure to work
properly on machten at least. i should have done that before my
previous message, sorry got excited ;-)
*** configure Wed Aug 11 15:50:45 1999
--- configure1.works Wed Aug 11 15:50:28 1999
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*** 1,4 ****
! #! /bin/sh
# Guess values for system-dependent variables and create Makefiles.
# Generated automatically using autoconf version 2.13
--- 1,4 ----
! #! /bin/bash
# Guess values for system-dependent variables and create Makefiles.
# Generated automatically using autoconf version 2.13
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*** 1190,1196 ****
if { (eval echo configure:1191: \"$ac_link\") 1>&5; (eval
$ac_link) 2>&5; }; then
for file in conftest.*; do
case $file in
! *.c | *.o | *.obj) ;;
*) ac_cv_exeext=`echo $file | sed -e s/conftest//` ;;
esac
done
--- 1190,1196 ----
if { (eval echo configure:1191: \"$ac_link\") 1>&5; (eval
$ac_link) 2>&5; }; then
for file in conftest.*; do
case $file in
! *.c | *.o | *.obj | .xcoff ) ;;
*) ac_cv_exeext=`echo $file | sed -e s/conftest//` ;;
esac
done
At a recent computer software engineering course in the US, the participants
were given an awkward question to answer. "If you had just boarded an
airliner and discovered that your team of programmers had been responsible
for the flight control software, how many of you would disembark
immediately?"
unknown author
