On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 06:53:42AM -0800, Ryan Bloom wrote: > On Tuesday 11 December 2001 01:29 am, Justin Erenkrantz wrote: > Personally, I'm not a big fan of having a library install a binary on the > machine > just to query the build options. This is why Greg's original idea for this > problem > was to add a function to the library which APR programs could use to > retrieve this information. I would be much happier with that implementation, > because it removes the possibility that you will update your library, and have > an out of date apr-config script.
There's a chicken-and-egg problem. How can you compile against the library without knowing the right compile arguments? I don't believe that APRVARS is any sort of solution. For example, to link on Linux with threads, you must have -pthread. If you don't have that, you can't link. -- justin
