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On Sunday, February 13, 2011 17:28:19 Enrico Weigelt wrote: |
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> Why isn't, eg., something like AC_CHECK_LIB just a function call ? |
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> There could be easily one generic function that does the job on |
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> the given parameters and also tells the success as return value, |
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> so you could directly write: |
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you mean "why hasnt it been done yet?". i imagine they're focusing on the |
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lower pieces first before they start picking the higher fruit. obviously a |
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AC_CHECK_LIB is really just a special case for linking a C file against some |
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library. and autoconf already has turned the basic compile/link steps into |
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functions. i'd say the obvious answer is "help out", but not much point with |
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you. |
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-mike |
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