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List:       vbox-dev
Subject:    Re: [vbox-dev] A few questions
From:       "Chris Cook" <chris.cook10 () gmail ! com>
Date:       2007-11-13 15:54:11
Message-ID: 5f6fcb0f0711130754g70ac30gb2a26aa10124add7 () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Nov 13, 2007 1:47 PM, Frank Mehnert <frank@innotek.de> wrote:
> Hi Crhis,
>
> On Tuesday 13 November 2007, Chris Cook wrote:
> > 1. Is the configure script auto-generated from anything? Ive been
> > experimenting with separating the checking functions to separate
> > files, in order to make the script shorter and more understandable.
> > The code for the checks currently take up over 2/3 rds of the
> > configure file. Is this of any interest as a patch?
>
> The script is not auto-generated. We are aware of autoconf but we
> decided to use a simple shell script without any other dependency
> to check for installed packages. I would not like to split the file
> since I prefer to have exactly one file. If the detection mechanism
> does not work for your host we can talk about fixing the issue. But
> please keep
>
>   http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Contributor_information
>
> in mind.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Frank
> --
> Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert    innotek GmbH, http://www.innotek.de

Ok, thanks, thats what I thought. The original script works fine for
me, I was just having a play whilst trying to get my head around it.

Thanks, once again,
Chris

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