What is the actual problem you are seeing? Are you building from tarballs, or from git?
/Simon Gordon Steemson <gstee...@gmail.com> writes: > 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 >>> >>> >> <signature.asc> > >
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