On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Caolan McNamara wrote:
> On 18-Nov-99 Mel wrote:
> >Could people who have WINE installed download the file
> >http://www.csn.ul.ie/~mel/projects/linux/vqfplugin/vqfplugin-0.3.tar.gz> >and just run the configure script. Some machines can't complete the script
> >and I'm trying to get concrete examples of failure so I can fix the
> >configure script. If it fails, just mail me config.log so I can read it.
> >Thanks for anyone who takes the time
>> The configure script works fine for me on a completely bastardized redhat4.2,
> *but* your script does not do the test for the wine source. The make breaks
> in vqfhandle with the wine-config program outputting the message onto the
> gcc argument list. You should move this as an extra test into configure and
> make it one of the tests that can be passed arguments from the configure
> command line. The dll test as cute, but a overridable dir to test for the
> source with an appropiate message would be good, i.e. I want to do
> /configure --with-wine-prefix=/mnt/loop/wine-45-459090
>> configure scripts can be more work that the code sometimes :-)
>
hmmm. k. good idea. Configure scripts may be good for the end user but
bloody hell, they are a pain in the arse for developers
Mel
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