On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 09:52:51PM +0100, Roland Illig wrote:
> 
> One thing I'm not quite sure is how to name the variables. 
> LIBNBCOMPAT_NEEDED is not the worst choice, but that name alone doesn't 
> tell _what_ is needed. If I said LIBNBCOMPAT_NEEDED=yes, this would also 
> sound reasonable. So I prefer LIBNBCOMPAT_NEEDED_FEATURES, even if that 
> name is a little longer. Same for NCURSES_NEEDED_FEATURES.

Does that make any difference?
Better might be
  LIBNBCOMPAT_NEEDED=xxx,yyy
where xxx and yyy are functions that (it is known) have to come from
libncompat (etc).
At least then you might have half a clue as to what doesn't work where.

	David

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