Re: The havelib module

[Sylvain Beucler]

On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 11:49:51PM +0100, Simon Josefsson wrote:
> Sylvain Beucler <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > The AC_LIB_HAVE_LINKFLAGS macro generates options like
> > "--with-libmylib-prefix".
> 
> Note that it also generate options like --with-libmylib.
> 
> The --with-libmylib-prefix is there to allow users to set the path to
> where mylib will be found.
> 
> The --without-libmylib-prefix is there to allow users to disable
> automatic searching for mylib in $prefix.
> 
> This is somewhat surprising, but it is useful once you know it.  Read
> the docstrings for the parameters carefully.
> 
> > It sounds a bit unclear to specify options such as
> > --without-libmylib-prefix to disable "mylib" (i.e. it sounds like
> > we're disabling mylib's *additional prefix* only, "--without-mylib"
> > would be more straightforward).
> 
> It actually works as you think it should work, I believe.  Use
> --without-mylib to disable mylib.

Hmmm, true.

I got confused because `./configure --help` documents
'--with-libmylib-prefix', but doesn't mention '--with-mylib'.

Is this a bug?

-- 
Sylvain