Re: FVWM: Gnu configure on next realease ???

From: Anthony Martin <amartin_at_engr.csulb.edu>
Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 14:30:10 -0700 (PDT)

>
> b) Switching to GNU autoconf is not suitable. Though GNU autoconf is
> great, imake knows ALL about development environment for X
> application and GNU autoconf (maybe) don't, sometimes mistake
> (That's the reason that patch for 1.xx was not included to fvwm).

Imake doesn't know all about the development environment. It knows about
the development environment that the OS vendor thinks you should have.
After all, everyone buys a commercial compiler from the OS vendor rather
than using GCC, right? :-)

Autoconf uses Imake if it is available to find relevent information such
as locations of libraries and include files and the names of any special
libraries that might be needed, but it doesn't make any assumptions about
what compiler you have installed. Autoconf checks for itself to find
your compiler and much other system-specific information. I think this is
the better solution.

Tony.


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Received on Wed May 22 1996 - 16:53:35 BST

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