Eh, I think that's potentially dangerous - a user with multiple boxes (or multiple distros on a box) might have lost track of what stuff is on what box/distro (yeah, I'm that sloppy), and the automagic might bite them (since most typical configures will complain loudly of missing items, they might depend on such things).
At the minimum, such automagic should probably use BIG SHOUTING WORDS to warn the user that something was not found and so some part will not be built/installed. I think. (IIRC we require Guile and expect, but do not require CLISP). On 9/30/13, David A. Wheeler <dwhee...@dwheeler.com> wrote: > I'm thinking that "configure" should figure out what works, and then just > ignore things that don't work. Currently users have to add options > to disable stuff, but that doesn't really make sense. > > E.G., if there's no clisp, just don't install it. > > Please let me know ASAP of any complaints. > > --- David A. Wheeler > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > October Webinars: Code for Performance > Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. > Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most > from > the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60133471&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > Readable-discuss mailing list > Readable-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/readable-discuss > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60133471&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Readable-discuss mailing list Readable-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/readable-discuss
