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Re: Problems with bringing mozilla's configury up to date
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Thomas E. Dickey |
Subject: |
Re: Problems with bringing mozilla's configury up to date |
Date: |
Mon, 19 May 2003 19:00:54 -0400 (EDT) |
On Mon, 19 May 2003, Christopher Seawood wrote:
> Philipp Thomas wrote:
> Autoconf 2.5x requires that macros only be called once which screws up
> the cross-compiling checks and some other conditional library checks.
some of that was recognized as a bug by the autoconf maintainers and
repaired a while back (some not, of course - because it would be
inconvenient ;-)
> When building a specific version of the browser (say against gtk2), we
> don't want to check for unneeded libraries (like gtk1 or qt). I still
> don't understand why conditional checks are frowned upon especially when
> some of them (like AC_PROG_CXX) will stop the script if they fail.
;-)
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