configure problems

[jim hopper]

I did the following patch file to put my changes to configure to work 
properly on machten at least.  i should have done that before my 
previous message, sorry got excited ;-)

*** configure	Wed Aug 11 15:50:45 1999
--- configure1.works	Wed Aug 11 15:50:28 1999
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*** 1,4 ****
! #! /bin/sh
 
   # Guess values for system-dependent variables and create Makefiles.
   # Generated automatically using autoconf version 2.13
--- 1,4 ----
! #! /bin/bash
 
   # Guess values for system-dependent variables and create Makefiles.
   # Generated automatically using autoconf version 2.13
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*** 1190,1196 ****
     if { (eval echo configure:1191: \"$ac_link\") 1>&5; (eval 
$ac_link) 2>&5; }; then
       for file in conftest.*; do
         case $file in
!       *.c | *.o | *.obj) ;;
         *) ac_cv_exeext=`echo $file | sed -e s/conftest//` ;;
         esac
       done
--- 1190,1196 ----
     if { (eval echo configure:1191: \"$ac_link\") 1>&5; (eval 
$ac_link) 2>&5; }; then
       for file in conftest.*; do
         case $file in
!       *.c | *.o | *.obj | .xcoff ) ;;
         *) ac_cv_exeext=`echo $file | sed -e s/conftest//` ;;
         esac
       done
At a recent computer software engineering course in the US, the participants
were given an awkward question to answer.  "If you had just boarded an
airliner and discovered that your team of programmers had been responsible
for the flight control software, how many of you would disembark
immediately?"
                     unknown author