Re: HTML format documentation

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Sep  4, 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Greg A. Woods) wrote:

> [ 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?

It's not the users, it's the distributors.  Each GNU/Linux
distribution could ship with a config.site installed in /usr/share
that would match the definitions used to build the distribution.

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