On 10/06/2010 01:13 PM, Kinkie wrote:
>> True, but it gets set back to "no" if the libraries are subsequently not
>> found. Not a problem though if Amos has changed it to a better way of
>> doing it.
>
> The current standard for --enable and --with flags is: "yes" means
> force-enable, fail the build if not possible. "no" means
> force-disable, "auto" means "try to enable, disable if some required
> part is not available". For --with flags, everything else is usually
> considered as a path to be used.
>
> Please everyone remember that, let's not get the autoconf-refactor
> effort be wasted :)
It is easy to forget this. Where we should document these rules? As a
comment in configure.in? Or is it already documented somewhere?
Thank you,
Alex.
Received on Tue Oct 19 2010 - 18:36:01 MDT
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