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+#!/bin/sh
+# From magic
+#
+# Use:  ./configure [args]
+#
+#	where [args] are arguments passed to the scripts/configure script
+#
+# This script is a workaround to GNU autoconf which can't deal with having
+# all of its config scripts in a different directory than the configure
+# script itself.  It also sets up CFLAGS without the default optimizer
+# flag (-O2).
+
+(  cd scripts && ./configure "$@" )