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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] configure,	test: Added variables for paths to true
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Charles Celerier <cceleri@cs.stanford.edu> writes:

> The path to true may not be the same on all platforms (e.g. on Mac OS X
> it is /usr/bin/true), so the hard-coded path of /bin/true is not
> portable. This is resolved by adding a step to the configure script to
> locate the path of true and to use the TRUE variable wherever /bin/true
> was needed. The same was done for false.

Does this really need a configure script variable? It seems like
overkill.

d