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| From: | Bob Friesenhahn |
| Subject: | Re: [libtool 2.2] testsuite: 19 35 36 44 45 46 48 49 50 51 52 53 60 61 62 64 failed [GNU/Linux PowerPC] |
| Date: | Thu, 6 Mar 2008 14:03:45 -0600 (CST) |
On Thu, 6 Mar 2008, Peter O'Gorman wrote:
What would be ideal is to check that the compiler exists, is executable, works (an possibly, when not cross-compiling, test that trivial code that is compiled with the compiler runs) but not cause an error if the compiler is broken or does not exist, simply warn the user that a broken compiler was detected and set the same vars in the same way as would be set if no compiler was detected.
I agree with most of this (ammended for cross-compile) except that it is wrong to assume that users watch configure output while it runs. Most people seem to use that time to get a cup of coffee (or another Canadian beer). There needs to be a way to output any warnings at the tail end of configure so that at least someone is more likely to see them. Without adequate notification to the user, the user is likely to try 'make' and then find that libtool does not work.
Bob ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn address@hidden, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
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