Re: dispatching

[Noah Misch]

On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 10:06:21PM +0100, address@hidden wrote:
> I'd like to know whether the following scenario is possible with
> Autoconf:
> 
> Somewhere early during ./configure, the host type is checked. If it is
> GNU (Hurd), an ordinary build is prepared. (Checking libs, using
> automake-generated makefile etc.) However, if it's Linux, the behaviour
> changes completely: All the ordinary checks are skipped; instead of an
> automake-generated makefile, a simple, hand-written makefile is used,
> with only a couple of configuration variables substituted.

Autoconf does not preclude building a `configure' that behaves as you describe,
but it is an awkward fit.