On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 11:24:22AM +0100, Per Olofsson wrote: > code, there's a lower risk of problems occuring, etc. But does that > remove the need for configure scripts? Not really, the library would > still need to check for everything, even if only done once.
But there's absolutely no need to lock the build process behind the checks. The checks are only necessary to check what is missing if the build fails, or, if the user first wants to automatically check if the script happens to manage to find everything wanted installed. -- Tuomo
