On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 09:17:14PM +0100, Per Olofsson wrote: > Still, some packages may need to check for many things.
And many of those are standard checks that should be cached and shared by programs. But no... Well, maybe it is possible but should then be enabled by default. > Yes, but Ion and PWM mostly uses X libraries, which looks mostly the > same across all platforms. With the compatibility library and standard paths and such given, library versions and compile options for them should be the only thing left most well-written programs should depend on. There's then no need to lock the build process behind an unreliable checking script. > I don't think an autoconf script for Ion would be bloated if it is > written correctly. You don't have to test for a hundred things, only > what you specify in configure.ac is tested for. I have had too much bad experiences with autoconf to trust it enough to make it only possible to build Ion by running ./configure. There can be an option to automatically create a system.mk, maybe config.h, but it must still be possible to build Ion at least as easily as now without resorting to autoconf. -- Tuomo
