The following reply was made to PR os-solaris/3094; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: "Ralf S. Engelschall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Subject: Re: os-solaris/3094: Configure script does not check for presence
of make.
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1998 17:38:47 +0200
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
> During the initial setup of Apache, "configure" does not check to make sure
> that it can find "make" on a system (Solaris puts it in a rather "weird"
> place
> by default) before it tries to run and do "useful" things. It should
> probably
> complain if it simply is unable to find anything it needs to run successfully
> (eg. make, ar, ranlib, etc).
Technically this is no problem. It would be just a for-loop inside APACI's
configure script iterating over src/helpers/PrintPath calls. But life is not
such simple. For instance some Solaris people use _only_ GNU make as "gmake",
so when we check for "make" we would give an error, although the user intended
to use "gmake" later. Same for "ranlib": We cannot generally look for it
inside APACI's configure script because it's determined a lot of time later
whether it's actually needed (we don't need ranlib on all platforms).
So, I think we just would mess up the situation even more when we check for
some tools. OTOH, the user already gets an error. It's not from our
configuration scripts, ok. But it's a shell error which results in mainly the
same effect: The user is notified that "make" is not found.
Ralf S. Engelschall
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.engelschall.com
