Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1 of 2 v3] tools: check for documentation generation tools at configure time

[Tim Deegan <tim@xxxxxxx>]

At 10:08 -0700 on 17 Sep (1347876501), Matt Wilson wrote:
> While we're discussing expanding the coverage of ./configure, I
> wonder: what (if any) is the resistance to requiring ./configure to
> build the xen/ tree?

There's nothing in the hypervisor build that needs to be adjusted to
match the run-time userspace.  So if you're a hypervisor maintainer it
just introduces all the charming idiosyncracies of autotools without
providing any benefit.  E.g., this:

 checking for yajl_alloc in -lyajl... no
 configure: error: Could not find yajl

should not stop me building Xen.  Also, as I said before, autoconf is
the thin end of a slippery wedge: the answer to any autotools problem is
always more autotools, and I choose to make my stand here rather than
have the argument later about why we shouldn't be using libtool. :)

Tim.

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