[ On , September 3, 2000 at 16:44:05 (-0300), Alexandre Oliva wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: HTML format documentation
>
> There's no need to introduce knowledge about particular systems in
> autoconf: each system can take care of the issue on its own.

Ah, no, that's not even remotely practical.  How do you expect a zillion
different users to all figure this stuff out on their own?  The idea is
to do it right, and to do it once, and thus to spread the benefit to
everyone.  Otherwise we wouldn't even need autoconf in the first place!

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