On 03/12/2012 10:50 AM, Stuart Henderson wrote:
On 2012-03-11, Kaya Saman<kayasa...@gmail.com> wrote:
Now I do know these without even needing to read the documentation...
however even **IF** I tried to compile on one of those platforms which I
do all the time.... I never need to adjust system variables or tell the
configure script what compiler or other I'm using as it is intelligent
enough to autodetect it.
You don't usually need to run autoconf to regenerate the configure
script unless you edit configure.in or other m4 files.
The software authors are supposed to do that for you as
part of their release process
I eventually figured that one out by reading the scripts themselves, but
it seems that a lot of software is unsupported on OpenBSD and the devels
don't want to know either as other OS's have larger user bases.
Pretty sure there is some selection mechanism for different autoconf
versions on FreeBSD as well but maybe they picked a default version
(at least by making it an explicit requirement OpenBSD users are
less likely to be affected by incompatible autoconf versions).
I will keep searching and studying this as it might be just the config
scripts as you mentioned above.
Regards,
Kaya
