At 02:06 PM 1/7/2002 -0800, Brent Dax wrote:
>stdio is pretty std, right?  That ought to be enough for Configure--we
>can compile a stdio.ops into miniparrot.  I doubt we'll need the full
>ParrotIO subsystem just for building.  The most complicated thing we'll
>have to do is probably backticks, and that can be easily emulated with
>system() and redirection.  (We'll also have to do regex matches against
>the backticks, but I'm working on that one. ;^) )

Backticks are trickier than you might think. For the build, though, plain 
system is sufficient, which is good. :)

                                        Dan

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