Hi Andreas, Thanks for explaining!
On 30 March 2014 19:51, Andreas Fritiofson <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 6:41 PM, Bjørn Forsman <[email protected]> > wrote: [snip explanation of what configure flags to enable/disable] >> Is there any reason not to enable all? (Except from maybe saving a few >> bytes of install size?) > > Some may have dependencies that are unwanted, such as the proprietary FTDI > D2XX library, or may wreak havoc on a platform other than the intended as > they access memory mapped peripherals directly. Ah, right. Not *everything* is OK to have enabled by default :-) >> And if enabling all the right thing to do for distros, how about >> making a "enable-all" switch so that on the next release we don't >> accidentally configure out some cool new feature just because we >> forgot to look very closely at ./configure --help? > > Since the last release, libusb and hidapi based adapters are enabled > automatically based on what pkg-config says about library availability. This > will probably be extended for other dependencies as well, at least libftdi. Good to know. Yes, enabling all features available in openocd when a set of deps are available is nice thing to do (IMHO). Otherwise one might wonder if those features are experimental or not recommended for end-users :-) Best regards, Bjørn Forsman ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ OpenOCD-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openocd-devel
