[thelist] Autoconf (was Re: mod_rewrite...hair)

[Kevin Martin]

Quoth Matt Liotta <mliotta at iname.com>

>Your tip assumes the application in question make use of AuthConf and that
>you need to su before installing it. Both are bad assumptions.

That was the context around the tip, but the point was that for those
many apps that DO use autoconf, which you build starting with ./configure,
you ought to keep a copy of what you fed it.