erlang R8B on Mandrake 8

[Bengt Kleberg]

> From: Kent Boortz <kent@REDACTED>


> Yes, the configure script needs improvements....

The gnu auto-tools (normally responsible for configure scripts. Notable
exception is bigloos configure) are very much in need of
improvment/replacement.

qmail does it right, IMHO.

The whole issue is a mess, so it is not really nice of me
to complain about the auto-tools.


bengt