Scconfig is a self-contained project configuration tool which depends only on Make and an ANSI (C89) C compiler. Scconfig can test different things on a system, often by compiling and running test programs. Besides saving test results in a text file, it can also generate text files like Makefiles or include files with content depending on those test results.
There are artificial limits on portability tho. While in theory it is possible to scretch the system so that it really works on all operating systems ever existed, or at least on all UNIX-like systems, it is not the goal. This decision is a trade-off between portability and maintainability. Also between portability and code size (or bloat). The artificial limits are:
Libmawk 0.9.7 is reported to configure and compile on the following systems:
system | compiles
out of the box | FPE problems | awklib test | binary save/load save/load |
[i386] GNU/Linux | yes | no | ok | ok |
[amd64] GNU/Linux | yes | no | ok | ok |
[i386] Minix | ||||
[i386] NetBSD 4.0 | yes | no | ok | ok |
[i386] open solaris 5.11 | ||||
[i386] OpenBSD 5.0 | yes | no | ok | ok |
[i386] FreeBSD 9.0 | yes | no | ok | ok |
[IP22] IRIX 5.3 | no | minor | doesn't work | |
[i386] Dragonfly BSD 2.10 | yes | no | ok | ok |
Libmawk 0.9.6 is reported to configure and compile on the following systems:
system | compiles
out of the box | FPE problems | awklib test | binary save/load save/load |
i386 GNU/Linux | yes | no | ok | ok |
amd64 GNU/Linux | yes | no | ok | ok |
i386 Minix | yes | yes | ok | ok |
i386 NetBSD 4.0 | yes | yes | ok | ok |
i386 open solaris 5.11 | yes | no | ok | ok |
i386 OpenBSD 5.0 | yes | yes | ok | ok |
i386 FreeBSD 9.0 | yes | yes | ok | ok |
IP22 IRIX 5.3 | yes | no | ok | doesn't work |
i386 Dragonfly BSD 2.10 | yes | yes | ok | ok |