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Subject: Re: Compiling Postfix for multiple architectures in same source tree?
From: Jonathan Bartlett (johnnybwolfram.com)
Date: Fri Apr 07 2000 - 10:20:57 CDT

Is there _ever_ any way besides a test suite? That's why you put in your
README "this has been tested on...". With autoconf, you get the added
benefit of having potential working on platforms you don't even know
about. Of course, the host could have crappy libraries and build it
wrong, but that's a possibility anyway, isn't it?

Jon

On Fri, 7 Apr 2000, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 07, 2000 at 09:36:17AM -0500, Mark D. Roth wrote:
>
> > On a related note, I just built Postfix for the first time last night,
> > and I was wondering if there would be interest in using GNU autoconf
> > for the build-time configuration.
>
> Quick! Luckily Wietse is not yet in the office (?) -- you might still have
> time to put your asbestos suit on before he flames you :)
>
> The reason there's no autoconf in it is because with autoconf you cannot
> assure that the program will work on the platform although it compiled...
>
> --
> Ralf Hildebrandt <R.Hildebrandttu-bs.de> www.stahl.bau.tu-bs.de/~hildeb
> If JavaScript is walking alone late at night through a bad part of
> town with a pocket full of $20 bills, ActiveX is dropping your
> trousers in the middle of the yard of a maximum-security prison,
> bending over, and yelling 'Come and get it, boys!'
>
>