On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Thomas Dickey wrote:
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng wrote:
A few weeks ago I wrote to the Gnu coding standards people, with a suggestion that there should be a DEPENDENCIES file, so that
It would be nice if autoconf did that for itself. I don't recall a "recent" release which satisfied that goal (and noted that problem on this mailing list several times without seeing any result).
Autoconf has no way to know anything about a "package". It works by executing the compiler/linker so it only tests the cumulative result of installing "packages".
hmm - so autoconf isn't a package?
The remainder of your response indicates that you don't agree that autoconf has dependencies. No point in trying to explore _that_.
have a nice day...
-- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
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