On May 6, 2000, Tom Tromey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>>>> "Greg" == <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Greg> One of the things that I find frustrating in 'autoconf' is that
Greg> dependencies between configuration tests are not explicit.
> FWIW: this is one of the things that Metaconf (the package used to
> build Perl-style Configure scripts) does better than autoconf. When
> you write a Metaconf test, you include dependencies. Metaconf
> extracts these, and builds a Makefile that is used to build the
> resulting Configure script.
Aren't AC_REQUIRE and AC_BEFORE supposed to fulfill these needs?
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