Re: Build Problem with latest CVS Version under OpenBSD 2.7

On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, Zak Greant wrote: > At 12:48 PM 8/14/00 +0200, you wrote: > > > > It would perhaps be worth trying to detect the m4 version from > > > > autoconf and alerting the user if it doesn't have esyscmd capability. > > > > > > That makes sense to me. ...maybe we could write a little m4 script that > > > checks for the existence of the needed m4 macros with ifdef??? > > > > Nope, just let them fix their build tools. If a user depends > > on being able to run buildconf on a broken system, she shall > > install GNU m4 (it is probably easily available through the > > OpenBSD ports mechanism). > > > > - Sascha > > Warning people that their build tools are not sufficient would not hurt > anyone! :) I'm in favor of adding a note to the CVS instructions. This issue does not affect end-users, so we don't need to aim at doing everything automatically. - Sascha