Hi Al. On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 01:04:55PM -0400, al davis wrote: > Over the years, I have run into cases where programs failed to > build because of those irrelevant tests.
indeed. other things fail for no apparent reason because a test is missing. autotools tries hard to not even start the build if something is clearly wrong. > I could see "checking for a proper build environment", and if it > isn't a detailed message to guide in fixing it. I see no harm > in leaving out the whole thing. grep "build environment is sane" configure -A 30. the comments look quite comprehensible. for example its about weird characters in paths. i dont know what made them add this check. but i don't want to debug the mysterious failure that this check would have caught. really. > It looks like we are stuck with it. That's unfortunate but it > looks like we must go with it. ... until somebody reinvents autotools. i think i can't help much. regards felix _______________________________________________ Gnucap-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucap-devel
