On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 22:28:34 +0300 Sergey Poznyakoff <g...@gnu.org.ua> wrote:
> Alfred M. Szmidt <a...@gnu.org> ha escrit: > > > Is that a bug or a featuer? > > Neither. It is simply that --disable-whatever is equivalent to > --enable-whatever=no, so that giving it an option is in fact > useless. > > > I cannot see why you'd want to use > > --disable-FOO=yes/no.... Can someone explain why that is useful? > > Given what I said above, it is not. it is useful if you can make use of it! because the configure --help output displays most options the --disable way, middle-clicking that and appending a no is faster and less work than writing it all manually the --enable way. it is also less error prone. > > Regards, > Sergey best wishes, MeloDramus <melodra...@online.de>
