Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2003 23:02:30 +0000
From: Gabriele Bartolini <gbartolini@prato.linux.it>
To: bartolini@infomedia.it
Subject: New configure patch


Ciao there!

   I just send this patch towards new configure scripts; I converted older
configure.in and related files to more standard procedures (even though it is an
endless process and what I have done is just the beginning).

   However, as Lachlan wisely said, a configure change now could risk to compromise
3.2.0b5 release and probably we should wait until that.

    I should ask (especially OS X users) to kindly test this patch as I did on my
Linux (and works).

   I have just started the configure and portability changes I had thought,
especially towards C++ standard library presence checks (there's a very elegant
macro in the autoconf archive); if it works, I can start modifying the code whenever
a warning is issued for including C++ headers in the 'C' way (.h).

   Well I hope I am not causing any trouble to you, and that just a few minutes of
your precious time could be spent on this.

Ciao and thanks
-Gabriele