On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: > > Personally, if configure in coreutils would include a code to > > disable hostname based on certain criteria, I would be happy > > with that too. > > > > That is ugly, and it is impossible to figure out what this > > criteria is. > > There is precedent for a ./configure option like > --disable-hostname; I think that's the sort of thing Martin was > talking about.
Yes, that what I've meant. Maybe the required logic wouldn't be nice, but say: by default don't build hostname on Solaris, Irix, where else too? With a note in INSTALL and "configure --help" it would be perfectly fine. > I understood it as having configure do some magic and see what the > user wanted, if what you say is what Martin ment, then I see no > problem with that. > > But the best proposal I've heard so far is to merge the version > from gettext into coreutils. That version supports all the options > people have asked for, and its copyright is already assigned to the > FSF. > So how about the above? I'm also for this solution. ;) -- Martin Mokrejs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP5.0i key is at http://www.natur.cuni.cz/~mmokrejs _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
