On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 09:05 +0200, Thomas Anders wrote:
> Robert Story wrote:
> > I'd like to move the configure prompts for values earlier in the configure
> > process. Currently they are at the end, which means if you fat-finger a
> > response (or the configure option that provides the value so that you don't
> > need a response), you have to re-run configure and go through the long 
> > process
> > of module configuration again. I don't think this should have any real 
> > impact,
> > but want to run it by everyone (particularly Wes and Dave) to see if 
> > there's a
> > good reason to keep it at the end.
> 
> The obvious downside is that if there's a configure error somewhere
> else in the long series of tests, your manual responses may be
> (repeatedly) wasted (which may become annoying until you learn how to
> avoid them).

This is in fact why I never use the manual configuration.
For throwaway configurations I use --with-defaults and for repeatable
configurations I use the various --with-<options>.
This also has the added benefit of putting the response in the command
line history and thus saving me some typing when I mess it up.

>From my point of view we could just remove the prompt stuff and make the
command line options mandatory.

/MF


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