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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>{{cite web |url=https://github.com/acli/trn/blob/613a7e97aca06dd807fb225990fa804e8c744574/Configure|title= Configure script of trn |publisher=GitHub |access-date=10 December 2020}}</ref>

Since then, an ecosystem of programstools hashave grownbeen updeveloped to automate the creation of configure scripts as far as possible, of which the most common is the [[Autoconf|GNU Autoconf]] system.

== References ==