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Configuration

Systems need to be tailored to fit into specific computing environments.

If we're lucky, this is handled by the execution engine.

  • although we'll may still need to change e.g. file/user names

If we're not so lucky, we need to ...

  • embded stuff in the code to cater for each environment
  • ensure the compiler uses the right set of switches
Best to do this automatically ...