[darcs-users] the problems with autoconf

[David Roundy]

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 6:54 AM, zooko <zooko at zooko.com> wrote:
> 1.  The current darcs autoconf scripts are not reliable at figuring
> out, at configure time, what is going to be available at compile
> time.  For example, ./configure will tell me that libcurl is
> available, with various features, and then at compile time I will get
> compile time errors saying that libcurl is not available.

Did you try using the macro we created that handled your libz problem?
If so, perhaps a patch and a bug report would be in order?

We've already got a macro for testing libraries using ghc.  We don't
use it for libcurl because it's new, and I wanted to reduce breakage.

David