Re: Configure needs to be picker about Enheavied Sound Demon

Jan> Martin Buchholz <martin(a)xemacs.org&gt; writes: Jan> Maybe we should, but I really don't like where this Jan> going. What is next, we check for every single header file we Jan> include? Yes. And we should also include code to do checks like (rpm -qf `which esd-config` || dpkg -S esd-config) | grep dev which if negative sends a bitchy memo to the relevant distribution about it, From: Jan, of course ;-). Seriously, I side with Jan, even though this bug bit me. What's the point of having a utility like esd-config if you can't trust it? We should take advantage of these utilities where they are available, and encourage the distributions to use them in a way which is consistent with the developers' intent. The Enlightment people would like to avoid being the next Xaw3d--- let's encourage them. It would be nice if esd-config actually verified the configuration it's reporting---maybe we should suggest an option for that?, but it wouldn't be necessary if Debian did it right. Jan> Potato is not released yet. Let's try not working around Jan> other peoples bugs when they still can be fixed. It's not like (at 4700-some and counting) the Debian people have an aversion to creating packages. -- University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences Tel/fax: +81 (298) 53-5091 _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________ What are those straight lines for? "XEmacs rules."