* Mike Frysinger <[email protected]> schrieb: > it depends on the package. we really dont track what configure tests > actually > test since there's way too many. most packages stick to the C library.
That's one of the major design issues of the whole autoconf ideology: too many (often obscure) tests instead of once sitting down and designing proper library interfaces (eg. using empty/ virtual libs where libc already provides the interface) or just fixing broken libc's. Little example, where I'm working on right now: coreutils and gnulib. Imagine, these jerks not just collected hundreds of (sometimes really broken) tests and workarounds instead of fixing the source - they also collected them in another "package" called gnulib, which gets fetched via git (from the current head instead of some release tag!) and _copied_ into the coreutils source tree by some obscure "bootstrap" script. Wow, self-modifying code. Violating all rules of the very first semester in software engineering ;-o cu -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email: [email protected] mobile: +49 151 27565287 icq: 210169427 skype: nekrad666 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Embedded-Linux / Portierung / Opensource-QM / Verteilte Systeme ----------------------------------------------------------------------
