[Xcb] Problem building xcb on a Sparc Solaris 10 Platform

[Vincent Torri]

>
> I really hate autotools.  Is there some way we can package a
> version of XCB so that you don't have to have recent
> autoconf, automake, libtool, pkgconfig, and GNU m4 installed
> to be able to build XCB?  This seems like a pretty important
> requirement for building on environments that don't support
> these things.  Automake requires gmake, but not much can be
> done about that, I think.

for another project, I use a configure script to create some files
(configuration files), and I write a specific Makefile that uses these
configuration files. The only thing that I use is autoconf, but even that
can be avoided with some additional work.

>
> Has anyone tried to compile with a non-GCC strict ANSI C
> compiler?

no, i didn't.

Vincent