On Thu, 6 Aug 2009, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote:
What is the general wisdom when deciding whether to add support for a new "-with" vs. just encouraging use of CFLAGS/LDFLAGS on the command line?
A problem with the "-with" approach is that it is impossible to achieve the flexibility offered to the user by CFLAGS/LDFLAGS and so something is bound to lose. For example, ordering of options in CFLAGS/LDFLAGS can influence which headers/libraries are used if there are multiple versions in multiple directories, but the "-with" approach hard-codes the ordering in the configure script where the user can't do anything about it (other than using CFLAGS/LDFLAGS).
Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn [email protected], http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
