On Friday 14 March 2008 06:07:37 am Andreas Färber wrote: > > So I absolutely _fail_ to understand what you thought, implying that > > I was > > restricting platform variability. > > So in fact you do agree with Rick on that part and replied to the > 'wrong' message, creating minor confusion: In your own quote, he > opposes the proposal to "make configure fail horribly". ;-)
okay, good, so it's not just me :-) And it is necessary to have configure require a special step to build with gcc4 anyway. I never suggested changing anything. just trying to learn a thing or two here. Sheesh is right, indeed.