enabling/disabling features (Was Re: RE Questions with Auke Kok)

[Nick Hudson]

Ahh ok I see, well yeah you have a point but autoconf is way to horrible
of a program to use.  As some of the modules in moonbase will not build
with autoconf and automake installed.  I dont know about any other
programs that woul do this but florin has somelinks we might can look
at??

Nick


On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 11:29, Florin Braescu wrote:
> --- Couannette <couannette at free.fr> wrote:
> 
> > Off topic : that was not my intention to study
> > dependencies in this 
> > case. Just to give an example of a complex system.
> > ;-)
> > 
> > In topic : Not all dependencies can become
> > "optional". I agree. Simply 
> > because theses deps are required for proper
> > function. But I'm thinking 
> > about optional ones : dependencies that add a
> > feature or add support for 
> > optional things...
> > 
> > Optional dependencies everty time its possible, i.e.
> > when such software 
> > isn't necessary, when it's possible to have another
> > dep that make the 
> > same thing, etc...
> > 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I can easilly understand what you want to say. It's an
> interesting idea, but in that case autoconf must be
> replaced with something else. That's because it detect
> any installed library and, if there is not present a
> permitted --disable-<feature> in the configure command
> it will force the use of a detected library. I think
> you may take a look at the cons, a perl based, make
> replacement system at www.dsmit.com/cons. There is
> another alternative, python based, named aap at
> www.a-a-p.org. 
> 
> Regards,
>   Florin
> 
> 
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