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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.python
Subject: Re: Python recompile
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2025 03:16:37 -0000 (UTC)
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On Tue, 4 Mar 2025 18:16:25 +0000, bart wrote:

> The first step appears to be to run a 35,000-line 'configure' script. 

Just a further note, if you’re doing your head in trying to read that -- 
it’s automatically generated with the m4 macro processor from 
configure.ac, which is a much smaller file (less than ¼ the size), and is 
the one maintained by humans.