Build problems on Ubuntu 8.04

[Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen]

Kelly O'Hair skrev  den 21-04-2008 18:11:
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> Roman Kennke wrote:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I've just setup a box with the soon-to-be-released Ubuntu 8.04, and see
>> a number of problems:
>>
>> Minor: make sanity does not check for gawk and c++, although the build
>> requires them. Maybe there are some more of these, but this is what I
>> found.
>>
>
> We never have done sanity checks on all the unix command tools.
> The sanity checks on the compilers usually involved finding the version
> number and verifying it, but even then it might only result in a warning.
> Over the past few years, most of the fatal sanity checks have been
> relaxed to warnings to allow for maximum flexibility. Most compilers
> and tools between Solaris, Windows, Linux, etc. are rather inconsistent
> when it comes to getting their version string.
> But I suppose we could always check for at least their existence.
>
> Verifying the Linux package list is very difficult to maintain for all 
> the
> variations of Linux.
>
> I'm open to solutions here.
Would a reasonable approach be setting up a configure script (GNU 
autoconf) to detect the appropriate things that will work (i.e. using 
bash instead of dash, is gawk or awk available) etc, and then use the 
output from that?

Or is that going over the ocean after water?