[tex-live] Build of Oct 2, 22:45 source.development fails
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Olaf Weber
olaf at infovore.xs4all.nl
Mon Oct 4 12:29:18 CEST 2004
Fabrice Popineau writes:
>> I suspect you underestimate the amount of work required.
> Possibly. My point is that for most people, it would be easier to fix a
> regular (simple) Makefile (if needed) than this autoconf problem.
That's likely true, esp. given the number of mutually
almost-compatible versions of auto* stuff around.
>> Some of this may be due to using different versions of autoconf, I
>> think. Can you give some concrete examples?
> I think I was refereeing to HAVE_DECL_GETENV (GNU grep, doffutils) vs
> HAVE_GETENV_H. I must say I haven't look into it, was merely afraid by the
> profusion of symbols refereeing to the same function and some new direction
> showing up.
HAVE_GETENV_H: "This machine has the getenv.h header"
HAVE_DECL_GETENV: "This machine has a declaration for getenv()"
> But anyway, my point was: who ensures the stability of this set of features?
Us? :-(
> Fabrice
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