On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 6:29 PM, Fabian Knittel <fabian.knit...@lettink.de> wrote: > So it sounds as if we're actually somewhat in agreement! You don't > want complex, automatic detection of non-standard situations and I > agree wholeheartedly. > But I _do_ want basic checking to achieve clear error messages at > configuration time, not obscure build errors far later in the build > process. Rule of thumb: If "make" fails due to missing or wrong > dependencies, it's a bug in configure, because it didn't detect the > problem beforehand.
I understand your argument. However, from my experience it is not needed, people are most capable of manage this without creating noise. I suggest to leave this as-is and if for some reason the audience of openvpn is different than other project I handle, we modify it. Alon.
