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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Suggestion: config.h.bot should be appended unmodified to config.h
From:       kde-devel () thewrittenword ! com
Date:       2001-04-11 20:16:44
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On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 10:40:41AM +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> > I think we must accept that autoconf can never be so good
> > that it works on all platforms equally well and that it picks up correct
> > values everywhere.
> > 
> no. here i disagree. autoconf is made exactly to fulfill this purpose.
> the problem is, that nobody has access to all the systems that are 
> supposed to be supported and therefor the checks are often incomplete
> or even broken. the way to go is to fix the checks, not to workaround
> them.

I concur very strongly. The #ifdef __osf entries are ugly hacks.
Either the autoconf tests should be corrected or the user should
maintain a local patch with their hacks. We should *not* pollute KDE
with such platform-specific code.

-- 
albert chin (china@thewrittenword.com)
 
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