On 1/10/13 4:38 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> It's complete folly to imagine that configure checks all and exactly the
> things that we require to build. In fact, I'd argue that a majority of
> what it does is inference or approximation of some sort.
I'm not saying they have to be exact. But you have to be prepared to
make them more exact when your approximations don't work out in practice.