Thomas Lockhart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was thinking about something like "make report" which would mail the > results of ./configure to, say, the ports mailing list. We could mention > it in the text message printed at the end of the make cycle.
I think it'd be a bad idea to encourage people to send mail to the ports list. For one thing, a pile of nonsubscriber mail would make more work for Marc, who has quite enough already. If you want to do this, set up a dedicated mail alias to receive such reports. (Possibly my thoughts on soliciting mass email are a tad colored by the amount of virus traffic I've been seeing lately :-( ... if the Klez epidemic gets any worse I will be forced to shut down jpeg-info, which is currently seeing upwards of 1000 virus mails/day...) I do like Joe's idea of embedding a complete configuration report right into the backend executable, where it can be retrieved long after config.log has been thrown away. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster