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== History ==

The first program to come with a configure script was [[rn (newsreader)|rn]] by [[Larry Wall]] in 1984. The script was written by hand and produced a jocular running commentary when executed. It still survives as part of the build system of the '''trn''' program.<ref>{{Citationcite web needed|dateurl=Januaryhttps://github.com/acli/trn/blob/613a7e97aca06dd807fb225990fa804e8c744574/Configure|title= Configure script of trn |publisher=GitHub |accessdate=10 December 20162020}}</ref>

Since then, an ecosystem of programs has grown up to automate the creation of configure scripts as far as possible, of which the most common is the [[Autoconf|GNU Autoconf]] system.