Re: Compile time options

[Adam Fedor]

On Mar 10, 2004, at 11:14 PM, Sheldon Gill wrote:
> I propose that we separate these "internal behaviour" compile time 
> options
> from autoconf and put them in per library "options.h" or something 
> similar.
> That can be the place to define all sorts of things like compile time
> behaviour switches and default names/locations used by the library.
> Documentation for each item could then be in-line making it easier to 
> create
> and maintain.

Well. The way I read this proposal, is that these options already exist 
in the libraries, they just happen to be scattered around and are hard 
to find. Putting them in one place makes it more obvious what kind of 
internal design decisions were made.  I'd have to agree that this would 
be useful in some way.

I agree though, that this should not affect platform or packaging 
options - those should all be made via configure - except for options 
that are overridable via defaults or configure options.

The BACKEND_BUNDLE was probably a bad example, but the other ones are 
good - basic internal library behavior that a large majority or 
administrators would not care to change or dictate - i.e. not really 
worthy of a configure option.