diff --git a/livesupport/configure b/livesupport/configure
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+#!/bin/sh
+#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+#   Copyright (c) 2004 Media Development Loan Fund
+#
+#   This file is part of the LiveSupport project.
+#   http://livesupport.campware.org/
+#   To report bugs, send an e-mail to bugs@campware.org
+#
+#   LiveSupport is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+#   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+#   the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+#   (at your option) any later version.
+#
+#   LiveSupport is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+#   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+#   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+#   GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+#   You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+#   along with LiveSupport; if not, write to the Free Software
+#   Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA
+#
+#
+#   Author   : $Author: maroy $
+#   Version  : $Revision: 1.1 $
+#   Location : $Source: /home/paul/cvs2svn-livesupport/newcvsrepo/livesupport/configure,v $
+#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+#   Run this script to configure the environment.
+#
+#   This script in effect calls the real automake / autoconf configure script
+#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+# assume we're in $basedir/bin
+reldir=`dirname $0`
+basedir=`cd $reldir; pwd;`
+test -z "$basedir" && basedir=.
+
+bindir=$basedir/bin
+tmpdir=$basedir/tmp
+
+
+autogen=$bindir/autogen.sh
+configure=$tmpdir/configure
+
+if [ -x $configure ]; then
+    (cd $tmpdir && $configure "$*")
+else
+    (cd $basedir && $autogen "$*")
+fi
+