Re: conditionally compiling C++ code

[Ronald Landheer-Cieslak]

On Tue, 29 Apr 2003, Thomas E. Dickey wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Apr 2003, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote:
> > Simple: same scenario (readline not installed in default location, program
> > needs it with the current configuration (the one the user asked for)).
> >
> > If readline is not found, display instructions on
> rofl: unless you're proposing to have this made part of autoconf, it's
> suggesting that the developer do this for every library that might fail.
Only the ones you want this kind of message for. This should be the choice 
of the developer (of the configure.ac script) and should be handled by 
him/her *exclusively*.

rlc