On Wednesday 8 November 2000, at 15 h 29, the keyboard of "Ean R . Schuessler"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> There are a number of features (including even X AWT GUI support) that are
> silently disabled during the Kaffe build if you do not have the proper header
> files installed.
This is a very common problem when recompiling packages, wether for porting to another
architecture or for using them on an older Debian version: most upstream programs
silently fallback when an option you requested is not available. For instance, you
'./configure --enable-ssl' and, if you don't have OpenSSL, the package quietly builds
without SSL and you get bug reports :-(
I would say the problem is upstream: a configure-style program should die when an
option is requested but cannot be implemented. But most configure.in do not check.
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