[sane-devel] minor: libusb not recognized

Enrico Weigelt weigelt at metux.de
Fri Apr 2 11:57:58 BST 2004


* Julien BLACHE <jb at jblache.org> [2004-04-01 14:03:20 +0200]:

> Enrico Weigelt <weigelt at metux.de> wrote:
> 
> >> Read the output of the configure script, that's its purpose.
> >
> > Is it reliably machine readable ?
> > Does it print out, which files will be generated an which dependencies 
> > the built package has ?
> 
> That's the job of the maintainer.

Ah, the maintainer should do it all by hand, although the machine could
do this completely by itself, if we'd once invest a couple of hours in 
writing a generic buildsystem for that, which also could be easily used
by (almost) all other packages currently relying on autoconf ?!

Oh well ...

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