* Stepan Kasal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-03-20 12:00]: > Well, ./configure _could_ do more sanity checks, but the expense is > obvious: all the people who pass correct parameters would have to > wait another few seconds.
Well, I think in this case some more sanity checks are justified because the few seconds lost checking if CXX exists are certainly better than all the headache caused by a configure script that "works" when CXX is bogus or that later fails at some completely unrelated place, such as in http://bugs.debian.org/357369 - where the error was: > checking for Boost development files... no > configure: error: Boost development files not found Turns out this was because of: configure:20113: g++-4.0 -c -O2 -D_REENTRANT -fpermissive conftest.cc >&5 ./configure: line 20114: g++-4.0: command not found This is really not a very nice (an obvious) way to fail. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
