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Submitted by: Niels Poppe <niels@netbox.org>

platforms details on the command line without having to patch the Configure
script everytime: One now can use ``perl Configure <id>:<details>'', i.e.
platform ids are allowed to have details appended to them (seperated by
colons). This is treated as there would be a static pre-configured entry in
Configure's %table under key <id> with value <details> and ``perl Configure
<id>'' is called.  So, when you want to perform a quick test-compile under
FreeBSD 3.1 with pgcc and without assembler stuff you can use ``perl Configure
"FreeBSD-elf:pgcc:-O6:::"'' now, which overrides the FreeBSD-elf entry
on-the-fly.

(PS: Notice that the same effect _cannot_ be achieved by using
     ``make CC=pgcc ..'' etc, because you cannot override all
     things from there.)

Configure ...' command line. This way one can compile OpenSSL libraries with
Position Independent Code (PIC) which is needed for linking it into DSOs.

script. Instead use the usual Shell->Perl transition trick.

the first word which broke (at least) the Linux compile. Hopefully this wont
break other platforms.

use of undefined variables: kludge so they all get initialised. Also avoid use
of POSIX module.

Submitted by: Alan Batie <batie@aahz.jf.intel.com>