[Fresco-devel] Re: automake for fresco

Warren Turkal wrote:
> 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:

[...]

are you saying that using automake or not doesn't make a difference,
i.e. that (as I suspected) we still need to explicitely pass
'disable-sdl' to configure ?

Stefan