Re: Reverting changes

[Michael Koch]

Am Freitag, 2. April 2004 22:48 schrieb Archie Cobbs:
> Michael Koch wrote:
> > > But I must admit that I haven't looked at the patch that added
> > > autogen.sh, so there may be a good reason to have the script
> > > instead.
> >
> > Well, it was more or less the usual commands in a row, autoreconf
> > can do this better from what I saw in its source.
>
> It would be nice if the script or autoreconf or whatever would check
> that the right versions of all the auto* tools are installed first
> before trying to run them.

autoreconf checks versions of auto* software by executing tests from 
configure.ac. Developers are supposed to read HACKING anyway when using 
CVS before trying to build it.


Michael