[Fresco-devel] Re: automake for fresco

On Saturday 01 February 2003 09:32 pm, Stefan Seefeld wrote:
> > 1. Ability to build in and out of the source tree without
> > issue (think --disable-sdl and trying to build within the
> > source tree).
>
> hmm, given that the problem stems from a shortcoming in
> autoconf, which is used by automake, too, how does automake
> solve this issue ?

I just checked on this. Errors in configuration propogate up the tree. For 
instance, if an error is detected in the SDL directory, configure stops with 
this message:

configure: error: this package needs SDL to compile and run
configure: error: /bin/sh './configure' failed for SDL

The first comes from the sdl directory's configure. The second if from the top 
level configure.

This lets the user know that they need to address the situation somehow, 
possibly by disabling sdl. BTW, the sdl configure gives some more info before 
that error line.

Warren

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