running the ./configure script does not seem to take into account whether a
package can be compiled, simply the version of the package the author of the
application is using. why cant it use 'locate' instead of pkg-config to find
the headers, and 'grep' to verify that the function accepts the same number
and type of parameters.
forgive me if this has been asked before, but i don't want to update all the
packages on my machine every time I run configure.
secondly, why does configure do the same tests every time? if the result
returned by:
what OS am I running
and
has 'CC' -v changed
should really remove the necessity to check everything every time. (checking
length of command line arguments?!)
I am required to intall pkgconfig, m4 etc, why not 'find-utils' and keep a
small database.
thirdly, why perl?
derek.
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