No Autoconf, dammit!

[Dan Sugalski]

This argument's old. Very old, so it may be unfamiliar to many 
people. The subject generates enough heat that I don't want to go 
there again.

We are not using autoconf. Period.
Parrot's build process, when shipped will be:
*) Person building runs platform-specific script
*) Script builds miniparrot, which assumes ANSI C89 functionality only
*) Miniparrot runs provided configure program, which is in bytecode
*) Configure probes environment
*) Full parrot is built
*) Full parrot is then invoked to complete the build process, which 
is driven by a program written in a parrot language and provided as 
bytecode

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                                Dan
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