Re: use --enable-pic [libtool--gary--1.0--patch-32]

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Noah Misch wrote on Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 07:26:14PM CEST:
> On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 12:30:35PM +0100, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
> >     * libltdl/m4/options.m4 (_LT_WITH_PIC): Renamed...
> >     (_LT_ENABLE_PIC): ...this.  Adjust all callers.  The configure
> >     option is now `--enable-pic', since `--with-pic' implies that the
> >     user wants to compile in an optional external package called pic.
> >     * doc/libtool.texi: Update documentation to match.
> 
> `pic' is not an external package, but it is also not an optional feature.  In
> particular, per Standards, `No `--enable' option should *ever* cause one 
> feature
> to replace another.'  --enable-pic effectively disables creation of the 
> non-pic
> `.a' library and creates a PIC `.a' library.
> 
> I suggest leaving things as they are or dropping the option entirely.  There 
> has
> been little mention of this option in the ChangeLog since 1999, when Thomas
> Tanner added the feature.  The mail archives on lists.gnu.org do not go back
> that far; what was the use case for this feature?  I cannot think of one.

FWIW, I would be OK with this.

Gary, what do you think about just changing the thinko in the
documentation and leaving the rest as-is?

Cheers,
Ralf