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Steven L Baur writes:
>> I don't think, this is a good idea. AFAIK, it has been a long standing
>> tradition to _not_ check for runtime features when configuring.
>
>I think you mean it _should_ be a long standing tradition.  I recall
>getting bitten by a configure bug autodetecting the lack of
>/usr/sbin/sendmail and selecting a broken replacement in the 19.14 beta
>cycle.  There are *a lot* of good reasons to compile code on machines that
>do not have sendmail running or available.

   I think you should have the configure stuff at least try to 'do the
right thing' when a user tries to build from source.  Someone should be
able to just type 'configure' and have XEmacs come up with all the bells
and whistles available, sound under linux included.  If the person doing
linux builds for the distribution doesn't get it autodetected, then that is
there problem, and they should tweak the configure command, which they
already have to do anyway.

-Bill P.

