Tom Lane wrote: > Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> writes: > > I would like a pedantic mode, but the method of activation is a tricky > > issue. You want it to be 'on' for normal users but 'off' for automatic > > build scripts. > > A quiet mode would work better, because it could be on by default for > both cases. However, people may be too used to expecting to see chatter > from configure scripts --- anyone who's used a few before would probably > think the script was hung :-(
Maybe have it emit single chars instead of lines for each check? That way it looks like something's going on. Not sure how difficult that is with autoconf. -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend
