what kind of machine am I

[Chip Salzenberg]

According to rowe at cme.nist.gov (Walter Rowe):
>The ``Configure'' script distributed with PERL has some really crafty
>mechanisms for determining what type of machine you are on.

When it is run on a system that is subtly different from one it knows,
Configure comes up with lots of plausible but wrong answers.

Configure's mechanism -- create config.sh, then run *.SH, which are
shell scripts that create Makefile etc. based on config.sh -- is
great.  Its guessing-game ass_u_me hacks, though, are atrocious.
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