On Sat, 5 Jul 2008, Tom Russo wrote:
Adding configure command line options is always necessary to deal with nonstandard installs. Peppering the configure script with tricks to look everywhere that might have the desired files is unmaintainable and often breaks. Look at the mess we have for BDB --- it tries all manner of crazy things to find db headers, and often screws up, all because no two installs of BDB seem to be consistent.
Rgr. BDB: Another of nemesis of ours, and of other projects! If the /usr/include/geotiff/ directory becomes commonplace later I'd advocate adding it to our autoconf scripts. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system!" _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
