Newsgroups: news.software.b Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: Peter's gripes Message-ID: <1990Feb4.222953.19169@utzoo.uucp> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <519@smcnet.UUCP> <1990Jan30.041541.23578@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> <572@sci34hub.UUCP> Date: Sun, 4 Feb 90 22:29:53 GMT In article <572@sci34hub.UUCP> gary@sci34hub.UUCP (Gary Heston) writes: >Personally, I'm considering writing a (heavily) modified version of >build that would remember the answer you gave it on the previous run. You're a bit behind on the news :-) evidently -- as of the 17-Jan-1990 and 18-Jan-1990 patches, build does this. >Maybe some code that would run test compiles to find out if the >functions are there or not..... with that, build could answer some >of the questions itself. It's really hard to do this 100% portably, unfortunately, especially given the variation in the format of can't-find-this complaints. (No, going out to the libraries via ar is not the answer -- the libraries aren't even always in the same places.) -- 1972: Saturn V #15 flight-ready| Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology 1990: birds nesting in engines | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu