>>>>> "edward" == Edward Avis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Hi
edward> But we can't expect the package authors to change their configure
edward> scripts just for Mandrake. To take XEmacs for an example, the configure
edward> script will leave out PNG and TIFF support if the libraries are not
edward> there. This is a useful feature if you just want to get the package
edward> built on your AIX, Solaris or Windows box, and I don't think the XEmacs
edward> developers would want to annoy their users by changing to AC_MSG_ERROR.
edward> But such behaviour is not a good idea for building RPMs, as we've
edward> discussed. So should the RPM packager change the configure script to
edward> AC_MSG_ERROR? Should we distribute a patch file for configure.in as
edward> part of the source package?
Nope, we want to change autoconf, to get an option telling it:
%configure --ac-msg-warn-means--ac-msg-error
and that should be all, we are expected to create the %configure
script from the configure.in script anyway.
If I find a free moment, will try to implement that thing, problems
are:
- lack of time :(
- no idea about autoconf internals
- no idea about m4 :(
Later, Juan.
--
In theory, practice and theory are the same, but in practice they
are different -- Larry McVoy
