Re: Requirements: configuration test dependencies

[Alexandre Oliva]

On May 10, 2000, Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hm, we do debate about various things related to this, but I certainly
> do agree it should be an error.

> In addition, that would be a real incompatible change, since I know
> there are such broken scripts outside.

How about reporting a hard error but still generating a configure
script?  Maybe named configure.error, so that the user can rename it
and use it, even knowing it's potentially broken?

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