Build problems on Ubuntu 8.04

[Kelly O'Hair]

Probably a reasonable start.

-kto

Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen wrote:
> Kelly O'Hair skrev  den 21-04-2008 18:11:
>>
>>
>> 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?