On 16 Mar 2011, at 10:33, Wolfgang Lux wrote:

> Fred Kiefer wrote:
> 
>> On 16.03.2011 10:10, Nicola Pero wrote:
>>>> * add a --remember-prefix-and-layout and --forget-prefix-and-layout 
>>>> options to configure (or similar)
>>>> that will enable remembering the prefix and layout across configure 
>>>> invocations.  This will be
>>>> disabled by default as it would confuse new users (and we're picking all 
>>>> the default options to
>>>> be best for new users).
>>> 
>>> I can implement this, but I won't use it myself - is it something that 
>>> other people genuinely
>>> need or want ?  If it helps, I'll do it.
>> 
>> It would help me :-)
>> I really would like to keep the old GNUstep file system layout and currently 
>> I always have to remember to specify this when configuring GNUstep make.
> 
> Use
> ./config.status --recheck && ./config.status
> instead of configure :-). This is what I'm doing anyway because I need to 
> remember a lot more additional configure options on OS X.

Yes, that's a good solution, though I use a tiny shell script to run configure 
with the options I want ... mostly because it's easy to keep that script 
somewhere safe when I'm doing things like deleting my entire installation in 
order to test a clean install.


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