From: MenTaLguY <mentalg@geocities.com>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 20:37:26 -0400 (EDT)

Re: libggi dependencies

> Btw 2, Am I alone in thinking the autoconf way is wrong ? Each
> application does some tests now (which sometimes takes quite a while)
> which can be settled once and for all by installing a OS-patchkit and
> then requiring that to be installed on a machine where such a autoconf
> program needs to be compiled. This would also avoid the huge conigure
> script that each app using it needs (typ. 60K).

There's apparently some way (or so I hear) that you can specify the various
things that autoconf detects for your machine, so they just get pulled in
from a file instead of tested every single damn time.  I've been meaning to
look into that, I guess now is as good a time as any.

-=MenTaLguY=-