[m-dev.] what everyone knows, part II

[Robert Shiplett]

/*
I picked a linux pkg at random in google and ended up at sourceforge for rxvt
downloaded via open|extract to ~/tmp
*/
ls -l
gedit README.configure
# that text mentions in passing (first option)  their very thoughtful,
considerate and helpful content available via
   ./configure --help
# without simply advising, primo, that the new user start there. Cf:
tests beginning with "First read this test."
/*
Question: is that egregious oversight or the correct assumption as to
what anyone knowing enough to try building rxvt would have to know?
Cf: teaching to sail a dinghy on the Charles River  with 'tack' but
not 'come-about'. Boom.

Example: as a user of mmake would know to run */
  mmake depends

# cf: presuppositions and pragmatics: set-theoretic approaches and
evolutionary psychology of commonsenseknowhow

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