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Re: installation instructions on OpenBSD and FreeBSD


From: Akim Demaille
Subject: Re: installation instructions on OpenBSD and FreeBSD
Date: 15 Mar 2001 19:24:55 +0100
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| Akim Demaille writes:
| > a system specific section seems not too good an idea to me.
| 
| I thought the same, until the bug reports I got from users of these
| systems showed me that
|   1. the default settings are not right on these systems,
|   2. the right settings are not obvious even to the users of these systems.

That you use an ad-hoc INSTALL seems OK and good to me: you help your
users.  But *our* job is to have Autoconf have it right, not to hide
our failures in documents the installer will have to read.



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