On 14-Feb-2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | I'd like to know whether the following scenario is possible with | Autoconf: | | Somewhere early during ./configure, the host type is checked. If it is | GNU (Hurd), an ordinary build is prepared. (Checking libs, using | automake-generated makefile etc.) However, if it's Linux, the behaviour | changes completely: All the ordinary checks are skipped; instead of an | automake-generated makefile, a simple, hand-written makefile is used, | with only a couple of configuration variables substituted. | | Will this work? TIA
Yes, you could make something like this work, but why skip the checks on one system but not others? What happens if you configure your software on a system that looks like "Linux" but doesn't actually have all the features you expect? Wouldn't it make more sense to perform all the same feature tests on every system? jwe _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
