On Dec 12, 2007 11:58 PM, Andrew Lentvorski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gus Wirth wrote: > > Ralph Shumaker wrote: > >> Andrew Lentvorski wrote: > > [snip] > >>> We hates configure. > > > > What's the alternative? > > Um, *make*? Or, maybe, scons. > > Really. Look at that list of things it detects. > > And what does it do when it doesn't find what it needs? It bombs out > with a cryptic error message. Pretty much the same result as if you > simply compiled it. > > The big problem is that people bend their programming to suit what > configure does rather than solving the underlying problem of portability. > > -a
Do you have some suggestions for "solving the underlying problem of portability."? BobLQ "Does not seem easy to me." -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
