Today, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> It may be wrong (or merely suboptimal) to abuse --with and --enable, but if >> the only tool you have is a hammer... > >This is unfortunately how I feel. I hate to abuse the --with flags, but >setting 27 different environment variables or editing a config file feels >like a step back.
Blindingly obvious answer: Why not copy the AC_ARG_WITH macro and rename it to AC_ARG_DEFAULT and change the code appropriately. It seems sensible to me to change the defaults at configure time, but I agree then --with and --enable are inappropriate. Regards, Philip Willoughby Systems Programmer, Department of Computing, Imperial College, London, UK -- echo [EMAIL PROTECTED] | tr "bizndfohces" "pwgd9ociaku"
