William Ahern <william@25thandClement.com> wrote:
On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 11:25:27AM -0700, Sam Roberts wrote:
I maintain libnet (but did not write it, or make its autoconf system),
and system networking APIs vary enormously, I would describe it as
non-trivial. auto* is mostly for testing existence of dependencies,
when the mere fact that you are compiling on a platform is not
sufficient to know if an optional dependency exists.
One of the things that annoys me about autoconf-style configuration is the
idea that the same build commands can build a package with different
features because of some environmental change. I prefer builds that are
reproducible, and that fail rather than quietly disabling functionality.
The only real issue was my CPP-based byte ordering detection was wrong
for my DNS packet structure.
http://commandcenter.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/byte-order-fallacy.html
Tony.
