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Re: Spurious datarootdir warnings in Wine configure


From: Ralf Wildenhues
Subject: Re: Spurious datarootdir warnings in Wine configure
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 13:11:52 +0200
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.11

* Alexandre Julliard wrote on Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 01:05:20PM CEST:
> Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> writes:
> >
> > OK.  We need a way to turn this mechanism off.  Stay tuned.
> 
> FWIW, here's a patch to test if datarootdir is defined in the output
> file, to avoid printing the warning in that case. It solves the
> problem for Wine.

Yes.  I vote against the patch.  I'll try to finish tomorrow a patch 
that will allow you to simply turn off the datarootdir related checks.

Rationale: the check is a heuristic, thus broken By Design[1].
Just because it works in your case, doesn't mean that Autoconf
developers would like to receive the next bug report about the
next user case in another week.

Cheers,
Ralf

[1] Quoting Bruno, who not only coined this IIRC, but also suggested
    to use this heuristic.  ;-)




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