./configure command

[Michael Hennebry]

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.

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