on Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 07:42:28PM -0700, Krzys Majewski (majewski@cs.ubc.ca) wrote: > Why is it that ./configure scripts, if they fail, almost always seem > to fail silently? For example I'll get a line like > > Checking for extremely important crucial dependency...no > > and the script will happily continue, generating makefiles and so on. Is it a crucial dependency? If so, a well-made configure script *will* fail. If it isn't a crucial dependency, but one which affects options, other dependencies, system features, or downstream configuration options, it should just note that the test failed and move on. Even Perl knows that Eunice is *not* an extremely important, crucial dependency. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc. http://www.opensales.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
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