>>>>> "stefan" == Stefan van der Eijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Hi
>> This is really a flaw in the GNU configure mechanism. It would be nice
>> if autoconf's configure scripts allowed you to say:
>>
>> % ./configure --definitely-use-libtiff
>>
stefan> Then the developer would need to put that in the .spec file --> %configure
stefan> --definitely-use-libtiff
I think that Ed means that autoconf try to workaround when you don't
have libX to build without X functionality. That is good except when
you want it to die if X don't exist, and there is nothing similar to:
%configure --strict
i.e. never do workarounds, if something fails (i.e. library don't
exist, whatever) give a error message and abort.
Note that the idea under autoconf was to make the system flexible, not
to manage dependencies.
Later, Juan.
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