On Tue, 11 Apr 2006, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 15:46 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: > > > > output could include complex if/then type arrangements. > > > > Weren't autotools supposed to eliminate that sort of thing? > Nope they aren't. Their primary goal is portability and adaptability of > package configuration to different systems. > > > From your comment, I gather they didn't. > How could they and why should they? I was under the apparently incorrect impression that with autotools, ./configure was supposed to test the predicates instead of putting them in the make file. -- Mike hennebry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx "Demons after money? Whatever happened to the still-beating heart of a virgin? No one has any standards any more." -- Rupert Giles
