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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.{{fact}}

Notable for its wry and jocular running commentary, that script was written entirely by hand and still survives as part of the build system of the '''trn''' program.

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 GNU Autoconf system.