> I thought that one of the main points of doing all of the autoconf/automake > stuff was to allow people to build everything for them selves, so that we do > not have to support directly any more platforms (encourage community and > self support). I have already had requests for Tru64 stuff, and they are > quite willing to build everything for themselves, how well they will get on > with fixing stuff is another problem. Yes but we should ship the dist targets where the users only have to type % ./configure; make; make install rather than the CVS where they have to build their own autoconf et al. Al.