* Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You are expecting autoconf to actually do something sane when it runs??? >
*rofl* The point is: the way autoconf does its 'checks' is completely insane - beginning with the expectation that an dumb script is more clever than an operator ;-o I've did a lot research in this area some time ago and came the conclusion, that autoconf cannot be fixed - it's broken by design. So I developed unitool: http://unitool.metux.de/ It uses an system/target-wide config database which can be either auto-generated or tweaked manually. I'm currently in the process of redesigning the database scheme to be more convenient and flexible and also allow several autoconf macros (eg. AC_CHECK_HEADER, ...) to directly query that config database. So autoconf can be easily rewritten to at least do a large bunch of checks via that db instead of compiling test programs. If anyone's interested in it, please let me know. cu -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrico Weigelt == metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce Patches / Fixes for a lot dozens of packages in dozens of versions: http://patches.metux.de/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- [email protected] mailing list
