On 5/4/06, Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org writes:
Currently, configure ignores unknown --enable/disable/with/without
options.
The autoconf people consider that a feature, not a bug. I'm
disinclined to second-guess the designers of the tool,
On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 02:22:25PM +0300, Marko Kreen wrote:
AFAIK that 'feature' is there to support configuring a 'tree'
of projects (like gcc), where subprojects have their own configure
scripts with different options. That way you can give all options
to top-level configure script which
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To: Tom Lane
Cc: Martijn van Oosterhout; pgsql-patches@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHES] [PATCH] Have configure complain about
unknown options
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Sent: 05 May 2006 12:22
To: Tom Lane
Cc: Martijn van Oosterhout; pgsql-patches@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHES] [PATCH] Have configure complain about
unknown options
As PostgreSQL tree is not set up that way, I think for
clarity sake it would
On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 08:34:36AM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
I am thinking we would need an option at the start like --strict that
would throw an error for any later invalid options.
Well, --strict would be tricky, if it's possible. My reading of the
autoconf code doesn't indicate a means
Currently, configure ignores unknown --enable/disable/with/without
options. Personally I find this behaviour annoying, so here is a patch
that fixes it. Example:
$ ./configure --enable-depends
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
snip
Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org writes:
Currently, configure ignores unknown --enable/disable/with/without
options.
The autoconf people consider that a feature, not a bug. I'm
disinclined to second-guess the designers of the tool, especially
with a patch like this that mucks with the
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 12:51:34PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org writes:
Currently, configure ignores unknown --enable/disable/with/without
options.
The autoconf people consider that a feature, not a bug. I'm
disinclined to second-guess the designers of
