Re: [Fresco-devel] Re: automake for fresco

On Sunday 02 February 2003 11:25 pm, Nathaniel Smith wrote:
> Yes, this is a good description of the current behaviour.  The problem
> is that it's not the correct behaviour -- autoconf is supposed to let
> you get _away_ from having to describe all your libraries and such by
> hand.  The correct behaviour would be for it to complete without error
> iff at least one of GGI or SDL is installed, and otherwise not.

This is bad because there is then undefined behaviour. How, if I am a 
packager, do I make sure that everything is building properly? What if I 
wanted to use SDL and didn't realize that I had only installed GGI headers 
and libs. I don't think that would be a good idea.

Warren

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