On Jul 3, 2006, at 6:09 PM, Pierre wrote:
I'm working on a patch to bring in this functionality, out of sheer
"I need to learn more about autoconf and I want to contribute to
PHP"-
ness :). Does anyone have any thoughts on what might go into such a
summary?
Something like:
GD Support Yes
Bundled
PNG Yes
JPEG No
GIF R/W Yes
PDO Support Yes
PDO Mysql Yes
PDO Sqlite Bundled Yes
...
Maybe with the version found and used, but it could make the summary
unreadable :)
The problem I have with this is that all of that information is
already findable from the configure output. Yes, you have to look for
it, but the idea of a summary is to summarize, not give extensive
details and basically duplicate all the AC_MSG_CHECKING output. Maybe
this is something that would only be provided by my --with-
summary=extended switch?
So far, I have install prefix, SAPI, debug on/off, things of
that simple nature. Also, any thoughts on whether the summary should
be printed from configure itself or config.status?
I think it may require some additional macros. These macros can be
called from the extension to set the key/value pairs to display.
I had this thought, but I wasn't really looking to do something
that'd require changing every config.m4 file in the PHP hierarchy.
Obviously this would be optional for any given extension, but still,
it's a larger job than I'm fully confident I can do.
Good luck and don't hesitate to harass the list until you get it
working, this is something I was waiting for since way too long (and
being lazy ;)
Well in that case, perhaps someone can tell me whether I should be
displaying this information from configure itself (configure.in
AC_MSG_RESULT macros) or from config.status (init_cmds in
AC_OUTPUT) :). If it's available from config.status, maybe that'd be
another reason to provide the very detailed output you suggested above?
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