> autoconf in PERL would still go looking in all the UNIX places for things.
> A straightforward port won't work - it'll be a lot more work to make it
> useful on these other platforms - particularly the Mac where there are
> many candidate compilers with their own way of laying things out.
I suspect that the best solution is a way to have autoconf generate
different scripts for configuring different platform families. Keep
the current 'configure' script for sufficiently unix-like environments;
but also generate separate scripts for Win32 and Mac. The source would
ship with all three configure scripts and the installer would choose
the right one for their environment.
If autoconf can't handle that yet, it would make a great general
enhancement to be rolled back into the main FSF/GNU autoconf distribution.
-Pat
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