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

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