[Info-vax] Looking into C-include files on VMS

[Joerg Schilling]

In article <7l3tbmF3cao27U1 at mid.individual.net>,
Bob Eager  <rde42 at spamcop.net> wrote:

>> Then you should know that "configure" implements ideas (fine grained
>> tests) that have been developed by the OpenSource movement in the late
>> 1970 to the early 1980s.
>
>And it's a mess. Time to throw it away and start again.

The idea of fine grained tests is from a time when many extremely different OS 
platforms existed and it was developed for portability of the usenet news 
system. 

There is a very similar idea to the schily makefilesystem developed by David
Korn, but it is based on a non-standard make program called "nmake". 
Boostrapping to a new platform is harder with David Korns system than it is 
with my sytem that is based on a standard make.

If you developed a better system than what I do with my enhanced "configure" 
and with the schily makefilesystem, you are welcome to present your ideas!

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