Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> * Bill Gatliff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb:
> 
>> If the build system derives from autoconf, then a hacked-up 
>> config.cache (or equivalent command-line args) often solves 
>> problems for me. 
> 
> Only if you're working on *one specific* target for a long time.
> I, for example, have to support lots of different targets, so your
> approach does not work for me.

I'm not exactly a one-specific-target kinda guy, either.  I routinely move
between MIPS, ARM, PPC and x86.

Yea, that means target-specific config.cache files.  But that works for me.

> Ah, and it's not *solving* any problem,
> just deferring it to some other day.

If "solving" means helping the tool get the answer it needs, even when running
in an environment/configuration it wasn't intended for, without breaking
compatibility with everyone else out there still using the same tool, then I
disagree.

But hey, I never said you had to do it my way.  :)


b.g.
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