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On May 6, 2006, at 4:36 PM, Peter Jeremy wrote:

> The far bigger problem is that OSs don't adhere to the POSIX standard
> and the POSIX standard isn't broad enough to cover the features that
> an application may require (Dianne Bruce mentioned sound).

But it is broad enough to cover the vast majority of tools that  
currently use autoconf.