> amartin> Then it isn't so foolish to assume that these are the actual
> amartin> locations, it checks to make sure.
> GNU autoconf decides libraries and files are exists. Suppose directories
> /usr/local/X11R5 and /usr/local/X11R6 are both exist, GNU autoconf can
> decide "which version of X to use" ? With imake, you can easily decide
> with using which imake (/usr/local/X11R5/bin or /usr/local/X11R6/bin)
> is suitable.
>
> Auto detection is great, and GNU autoconf does well I know, but GNU
> autoconf is not flexible when a user want to setup a little bit tricky...
Lemme see:
autoconf: override with command line switches
imake: totally re-install and re-configure to get it to work properly
You tell me which is more flexible.
> amartin> HPUX doesn't even come with Imake, and once you find it and
> amartin> install it, it is set up to use HP's compiler (which isn't
> amartin> included) and it sets up the CFLAGS with a bunch of
> amartin> non-standard compiler switches. At least Solaris comes with
> amartin> Imake, but again it is set up for the commercial compiler.
> That's right, but there is no reason to avoid this problem. How about
> providing imake environment for HP-UX ? (I heard somebody already
> makes this) or providing Packaged Solaris binaries of GCC ? (I heard
> this also) ?
>
> Using GNU autoconf is easy, but I think it's not a true solution to
> this problem, just a escape...
To a better solution.
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