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Re: defining configure options...
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Eric Blake |
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Re: defining configure options... |
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Wed, 27 Sep 2006 21:56:14 -0600 |
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According to Ben Bergen on 9/27/2006 9:40 PM:
> Does anyone know if it's possbile to define a configure option like
> --cell-prefix="..." instead of --with or --enable?
Possible? Perhaps. Recommended? No. It is a deliberate design decision
of the GNU Coding Standards that all configuration tweaks are done with
- --with- and --enable-, and that configure will ignore unknown options with
these prefixes, so that you can package several projects into a larger
configure with options for the subprojects set the same way. As a result,
autoconf makes these two families of options easy to support, but does not
really provide hooks for arbitrary other options. This topic has come up
on the list before, so searching the archives may shed some more light on
this topic.
- --
Life is short - so eat dessert first!
Eric Blake address@hidden
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