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| -rwxr-xr-x | configure | 18 |
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diff --git a/configure b/configure new file mode 100755 index 00000000..b7ba662d --- /dev/null +++ b/configure @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +#!/bin/sh + +# You may be wondering why we have this shell script instead of just +# naming buildtools/configure.pl 'configure' and letting the user +# invoke it with a 'configure' command directly. The reason is that +# that would depend upon the user having a suitable perl interpreter +# in /usr/bin/perl, which is nowhere near as dependable as that he has +# a suitable Bourne shell interpreter at /bin/sh. (An alternative that +# has been suggested is to code "#!/usr/bin/env perl" in configure.pl, +# but even the /usr/bin/env assumption is shakier than the /bin/sh +# assumption). + +# We have had reports of Netpbm builders who do not have a suitable +# Perl interpreter at /usr/bin/perl. They have a downlevel version that +# came with their operating system and can't run configure.pl at +# /usr/bin/perl, and a good Perl interpreter in /usr/local/bin/perl. + +perl `dirname $0`/buildtools/configure.pl $* |