Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote:
> 
> 
> I would actually be quite positive to autoconf if it wasn't for two
> things in it that I view as flaws:
> 
>   1) really heavy (to the level of magic) on sh features, making it
>      really difficult to deal with when something goes wrong, and
>      making portability a royal pain.

That's been my experience too. If it works its great. If it doesn't work
then I'd generally throw the package away and try something else. 

I wouldn't like to try to get it going under Windows or some of the
weirder embedded platforms OpenSSL has been used with.

Steve.
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