On Jul 3, 2006, at 8:34 PM, Rick Widmer wrote:
I was poking around at the TODO and I saw this:
* make configure print out a summary when it's done (like XEmacs)
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? 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 would say it should list every option that the user can select,
and show its value. For extra credit, on each entry tell if the
value is the default - either set to the default value, or not
specified.
The general consensus seems to be that I should show as much info as
is reasonably possible. For this, extensions need to be able to
register the summary information they can provide. I've come up with
a couple of different ideas for the syntax on this:
1) Add a new parameter to PHP_NEW_EXTENSION(), i.e.:
PHP_NEW_EXTENSION(standard, array.c base64.c basic_functions.c
browscap.c crc32.c # \ etc,
,,,, \
[Standard functions
Regex type:--with-regex=${REGEX_TYPE}])
2) AC_DEFUN() a new macro, i.e.:
PHP_SUMMARY_INFO([Standard functions], [Extension: Enabled
Regex type: --with-regex=${REGEX_TYPE}])
These are just random examples based on the standard extension,
obviously. Anyone like either of these or have a better idea?
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