[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> >confugire itself is not bad.
> >
> >Bad is the current GNU variant of the tool that requires
> >bash to be available in order to work.
> >
> >Bad is the fact that most projects miss-use confifure to create
> >Makefiles instead of just letting it test the compile environment
> >and create an include file that contains the results.
>
> Bad is also the fact that you have to handcode the rules.
>
> E.g., what point is there in handcrafting rules for, say, "nanosleep"?
>
> nanosleep lives in different libraries on different systems so there
> needs to be a standard rule library so you can say something like:
>
> AC_CONFIG_FUNCTION("nanosleep")
>
> and the tool would just load the appropriate set of rules for
> nanosleep.
I suspect that this (*) is not really possible, at leat not for any random
feature.
*) If I understand you you correctly and you like to see a tool that is able to
do this with any unknown random feature. You would always hand code tests for
some of the OS features.
But if you look at the Schily autoconf version (that has been derived from GNU
autoconf-2.13) you will see thatthe Schily autoconf includes 3x the more
feature tests than you get with the vanilla GNU-autoconf-2.13. In addition,
the Schily Makefile system includes a pre-built 'configure' that runs _all_
these tests by default.
Jörg
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