Ah, my apologies.  "--no-install" is not an argument someone might give to 
configure, it is something Libtool uses (most often seen during "make check"), 
and I was proposing that a configure test should exist to determine when it 
shouldn't do so.

I don't know whether such a thing has already been written or if various other 
projects' Makefiles simply never pass "--no-install" to libtool in the first 
place.  Either way, libidn is far from the only package that DOES use it, and 
it's more a cosmetic annoyance than anything serious, unless the person 
installing the software is particularly twitchy about warning messages.

Gordon S.

> On Nov 19, 2024, at 11:15 AM, Simon Josefsson <si...@josefsson.org> wrote:
> 
> What did you expect ./configure --no-install to do?  I don't think it is
> a common ./configure parameter with any well-established semantics.  How
> does 'make check' use --no-install?  I don't know what '--no-install'
> refers to really.
> 
> /Simon
> 
> Gordon Steemson <gstee...@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> Um.  False alarm.  ./configure does not actually check for ‘--no-install’ – 
>> I had it mixed up with another test that it _does_ perform.
>> 
>> (Maybe it should test for that in future?)
>> 
>> Gordon S.
>> 
>>>> On Nov 16, 2024, at 9:18 PM, Gordon Steemson <gstee...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> What the subject line says.  I built the most recent libidn 1
>>> package, v. 1.42, and even though ./configure correctly observed
>>> that ‘--no-install’ is not understood by my Mac, `make check` used
>>> it liberally anyway.
>>> 
>>> I realize this is very far from an Earth-shattering problem, but
>>> seeing that much warning-label red lettering go past on the console
>>> is not a fun experience in the time before you work out that it’s
>>> not anything _important_.
>>> 
>>> Sincerely,
>>> Gordon Steemson
>> 
>> 
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