Hi, On Monday 10 November 2008 16:29, Bill Hoffman wrote: > Can you describe exactly what you think autotools does here? I guess > most autotools tests use a try-compile to find a library. Is that what > you are referring to? Yep. If you want to link with a library you need to test if you can link with that library. If you test something different, you might then later be surprised, that linking does not work ... ... and yes this takes more time than just testing for existence. But it is way more correct ...
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