-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Ivan Levashew on 2/12/2009 11:59 AM: > Generally, I'd like build system and compiler to be as humble as > possible. Don't run tests on my platform, don't look for libraries and > headers in my /usr directory. If something is not specified by means of > command line or environment variables, it doesn't exist. The only > exception is libraries/headers provided by compiler (which is specified > on command line anyway). OS headers should be taken from SDKs and never > from my system. This sounds like the perfect use case for a chroot jail. As a maintainer, you should be capable of creating a bare-bones environment for testing your builds against an older or less complete installation than what you run on a day-to-day environment. In fact, many of the distros have tools to make doing this task easier. I think that you may be better served by learning how those distro package-preparation tools work to simulate the oldest supported environment. > > It really annoys me that so many accidents can happen! CocoAspell > installs its library into /usr/local/lib, and my programs accidentally > are being linked against it! I want to be in "cross compile" mode even > if it's not the case. That would the best service for me, because my OS > can easily happen to be better than end user's one. You are allowed to pre-populate the cache, to make the resulting ./configure run behave as though a library was not found, completely bypassing that search. You can also force cross-compilation mode by pre-setting the right environment variables, thus making your environment simulate the users by skipping the tests that you know will fail for your intended user. > P. S. I normally read and post through GMANE. CCing me will trigger > challenge-responce on bluebottle. Don't CC me. An unusual request (I'm trained to hit reply-to-all as the safest course of action for non-subscribed posters), but one I can honor. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake ebb9@xxxxxxx -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkmVcq4ACgkQ84KuGfSFAYBITwCgj6g0rtG4X4gb8i1V9Lm8iGUV qCUAoLJzlYV0P8mGtZbwzAhTmqQag+bh =md3m -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
