Author: Sheldon Hearn Date: To: Dr Andrew C Aitchison CC: exim-users, Volker Philippent Subject: Re: [Exim] Exim 4
On Thu, 12 Jul 2001 18:38:30 +0100, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote:
> I can understand the current system - if it goes wrong I can fix it.
The generated GNU configure scripts are generally pretty comprehensible.
:-)
> autoconf might start adding new features because I have the libraries for
> them. Just because I have pam/ldap/... installed it doesn't mean that I
> want them compiled into exim
Good GNU configure scripts are usually chock-full of "--enable-foo"
switches.
Once you've had the experience of trying to wedge Exim into another
build structure (like a BSD port or a RedHat SRPM), you'll wish it used
GNU configure.
However, last time I asked Philip about this, he didn't seem too keen
on the idea. From what I remember, he wasn't really concerned with GNU
configure per se, but rather that his style of platform-conditional
coding would be difficult to support with GNU configure.
