Re: [cairo] COPYING files....

On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 08:02, Egbert Eich wrote:

>  > The nicest part about all of this is that once the tarballs are built, the 
>  > target system need have *none* of the autoconf/automake tool chain 
>  > installed.
> 
> I used to believe that, too.
> When I tried to build Xlib configure failed horribly (with a syntax error, 
> not a sane error message) when I did not have pkg-config installed.

That sounds like correct behavior from the point of view of
autoconf/automake. After all, that is the point of the configure script:
to determine if you have everything you need on your system to correctly
build the software. (pkg-config isn't part of autoconf/automake)

It's a shame that it didn't give a clearer error about the missing
pkg-config (a check worthy of adding), but nonetheless the move to the
"more standard" gnu tools is encouraging.

Jeff