[Coin-discuss] Help with COIN configuration...

[Andreas Waechter]

Hi Lou,

>> please note that we ask people that recommit code to the COIN repository
>> to get the GNU basic version of the autotools (from the source code),
>> since packaged distributions often have minor modifications.
>
> 	This is certainly the case for Fedora Core 5. The distribution comes
> with the correct versions for autoconf, automake, and libtool, but there is a
> new test (something about checking the ABI on 64-bit architectures) added by the
> Core 5 distribution integration group. After downloading and installing from
> the FSF, that test disappeared.
>
> 	The obvious hazard is that we're excluding some test that is essential
> in a particular configuration.  We'll have to deal with that once an instance
> rears its ugly head.

Well, in order to have that test consistently included in all COIN 
projects, you are essentially asking everybody to use the Fedora Core 5 
version of the autotools, when they are creating the configure scripts for 
their project.  I don't think this is a good solution.

Cheers

Andreas