On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 01:32:55PM -0700, Roy Souther wrote:
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> Found it. Two errors in ./configure. If you do not set the value of sdl
> prefix then the ./configure tries to look for sdl-config in /bin/sdl-config
> but it is in /usr/bin/. configure should use whereis to find sdl-config or
> just try to run it in the path, not the way it does it now.
This is again not the fault of AVIFILE but the buggy installed autoconf
- AC_CHECK_PROGS macro should scan all your binary paths to locate
sdl-config script - if the GNU people will be doing such idiotic bugs
with each new release I guess it would be about the right time to
use configure script similar to mplayer's one.
> The second bug is that configure fails to get info from sdl-config but it
> still continues to configure. It should die with an error to let the user
> know that sdl-config had a problem.
configure will tell you about this problem but it's not a fatal bug
for avifile library itself as the library could be also used without SDL
library installed.
> These, among hundreds of other reason is why configure sux!
well 'when I was young' :) I've thought it would be good idea to use it.
But with each new release of auto* tools I could see how
stupid idea this has been...
However what is surprising me even more is - WHY just RedHat allows
to include such heavily broken tools into their distribution.
If they would ignore to use such broken software then the auto*
developer would be pushed hard to not create such unusable thing.
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