On Tue, 2011-06-14 at 08:19 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: > How would it "fail to fail"? If xorg-server.h isn't installed anymore, > then you won't get the extension. The macro is intended to check if an > extension is available in the server, and it does just that. I guess > you want it to fail harder if the xserver can't be found at all. > >
Ah, yes. I expected the m4 test to fail during configuration when the server is not installed because the macro is missing. That was a not a fair expectation as autoconf was done when the server was installed. This m4 test is better as it happens earlier. Thanks! I think I had this misconception for a while.
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