[tex-live] Build of Oct 2, 22:45 source.development fails onMacOS X

Olaf Weber olaf at infovore.xs4all.nl
Mon Oct 4 12:29:18 CEST 2004


Fabrice Popineau writes:

>> I suspect you underestimate the amount of work required.

> Possibly. My point is that for most people, it would be easier to fix a
> regular (simple) Makefile (if needed) than this autoconf problem.

That's likely true, esp. given the number of mutually
almost-compatible versions of auto* stuff around.

>> Some of this may be due to using different versions of autoconf, I
>> think.  Can you give some concrete examples?

> I think I was refereeing to HAVE_DECL_GETENV (GNU grep, doffutils) vs
> HAVE_GETENV_H. I must say I haven't look into it, was merely afraid by the
> profusion of symbols refereeing to the same function and some new direction
> showing up.

HAVE_GETENV_H: "This machine has the getenv.h header"
HAVE_DECL_GETENV: "This machine has a declaration for getenv()"

> But anyway, my point was: who ensures the stability of this set of features?

Us?  :-(

> Fabrice

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