[darcs-users] the problems with autoconf

[David Roundy]

On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 5:29 AM, zooko <zooko at zooko.com> wrote:
> On May 16, 2008, at 6:01 AM, Simon Marlow wrote:
>> Does it work to build it the way I described in my earlier email?
>> I build with libcurl, but I'm not sure about SSL.  I'm happy to
>> build a new darcs binary and put it up somewhere if that would help.
>
> I haven't tried it the way that you described -- at this moment I
> would rather work on a good cross-platform packaging system than work
> on packaging darcs on Windows.  :-)

I think that requiring the user to inform the configure script of the
location of build tools is entirely reasonable.

David