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From: jqb AT netcom DOT com (Jim Balter)
Subject: Re: configure goes into recursion
9 Mar 1997 18:11:53 -0800 :
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wiljan wrote:
> 
> I found my problem.
> Because I was missing grep.exe

That's because you didn't use the tar that came with the distribution
to unpack the distirbution, like the installation notes tell you to,
and thus symbolic links were not restored.

> I copied zgrep.exe to grep.exe.
> This causes configure to go into recursion.

Gee, no kidding.  head -4 zgrep.exe :
:
#!/bin/sh

# zgrep -- a wrapper around a grep program that decompresses files as
needed

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