Heikki Toivonen wrote:
I also vote for neither.. this is a documentation and community issue, not a makefile issue. We should simply *document* the compilers we do support in the build instructions themselves, and then let people add wiki links for building on other compilers. If people are having trouble building there should be lots of documentation about potential problems and we should be welcoming their participation on the mailing list if they have questions. When their questions are answered, the documentation should be updated to reflect their new and different variety of problems they've encountered.Andi Vajda wrote: It sounds like your fear is that people will blindly build with the wrong compiler successfully and then be confused down the road when the build suddenly breaks for them? Sure, this situation sucks but I think if we have sufficient docs and an active mailing list & IRC then we can help them work through their issue. I guess I don't see a reason to: a) spew a warning that users will be trained to ignore after doing 2 or 3 builds b) prevent the user from building because they want to build on their "Novell SlackBuntuToo" distribution This is the kind of situation that autoconf/configure was designed to deal with, I really wish we just used that. Alec |
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