On Jul 6, 2010, at 1:49 AM, <kevin.buck...@ecs.vuw.ac.nz> wrote: > (not that you'ld know that from configure -- help) but the NetBSD > handling of such options ended up running confgure with:
Ok, I fixed the help message: --enable-contrib-no-build=LIST Comma-separated list of contributed package NAMEs that will not be built. Possible values: libtrace, vt. Example: "--enable-contrib-no-build=libtrace,vt" will disable building both the "libtrace" and "vt" contributed software packages. > OK, I humbly withdraw (a) above but now, equally humbly, suggest > that instead of using a list, those things be turned into standard, > single-target, configure options, vis: > > --with-XXXX= > > --enable-XXXX= True, this would be better. I believe that Brian didn't initially do it this way for some subtle reasons, but I confess that I don't remember exactly why. Patches would be welcome here. :-) -- Jeff Squyres jsquy...@cisco.com For corporate legal information go to: http://www.cisco.com/web/about/doing_business/legal/cri/