[Dovecot] Re: [Dovecot-news] 1.0.beta9 released

[Matthias Andree]

Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> writes:

> On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 18:49 +0200, Geert Hendrickx wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 07:16:50PM +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote:
>> > Fixes a lot of bugs. The next release will be the first "release
>> > candidate" instead of a beta.
>> 
>> Timo, 
>> 
>> thanks for another release.  I noticed one thing though: ./configure now
>> checks for c++ and f77 compilers, even though dovecot doesn't seem to use
>> any C++ nor Fortran.  Could this check be removed again? (unless it's
>> necessary, of course)  
>
> I've no idea how to remove them. Autoconf for some reason just wants to
> add checks for them. I once tried looking into it how they could be
> removed but couldn't figure out anything.

That's caused by libtool. Don't ask /me/ for details though: while I've
some experience with autoconf/autoheader and automake/aclocal, I have
not yet developed software with libtool.

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Matthias Andree