[Xastir-Dev] Brave testers wanted for raw configure

[Jack Twilley]

I'm looking for a few good testers.  People who understand how
configure.ac turns into configure and what packages they have
installed on their system and how to find them.  People who are
running Solaris, Linux, Cygwin, even HP/UX.  Why, do you ask?

I've totally thrashed the configure.ac file.  What was previously
nearly eleven hundred lines of configure.ac is now a little over seven
hundred lines of configure.ac and acinclude.m4 with every major
part of the code examined with the exception of the ImageMagick evil.

I have also made some minor changes to other files to support some of
the changes in the configuration files.  These changes are only the
beginning -- things like checking for headers 'the right way' instead
of including a header because a library exists.  I've made a tar file
of all the modified files.  It's located at:

http://www.twilley.org/~jmt/xastir-new-configure.tar.gz

To test the changes, just cd to your CVS checkout directory, update
your sources, extract the tar file over the source tree, run
bootstrap.sh, run configure, run make, and install the software
however works for you.

I can see no difference in my FreeBSD installations, but I'm counting
on testers to help me make sure it works for everyone.  This patch is
not ready for prime time.  It will almost definitely break on at least
one operating system.  The testers who test this need to be able to
identify precisely what's wrong -- error messages are a good start --
in order for me to write tests to fix things.  It's a complicated
task, but the return on investment is high.

Thank you for your help!

Jack.
-- 
Jack Twilley
jmt at twilley dot org
http colon slash slash www dot twilley dot org slash tilde jmt slash
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