Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC v2] build: add autoconf to replace custom checks in tools/check

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 10.01.12 at 18:27, Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Jan Beulich writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC v2] build: add autoconf to 
> replace custom checks in tools/check"):
>> Let's see what other want; my thinking is that if one didn't care to
>> run ./configure manually, default settings are intended. That's
>> what an invocation without arguments should result in, without
>> any user interaction.
> 
> I don't think running configure automatically is at all desirable.

I can certainly put the invocation of it into the script I'm using to
build fresh trees, but I'm still curious why you think this is such
a bad idea. The usual situation - needing a Makefile to be
generated to have something to run make on - isn't the case here.

Jan


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