From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 43754@debbugs.gnu.org, syohex@gmail.com
Subject: bug#43754: [PATCH] configure help message of --with-json
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2020 18:06:41 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83tuvcekfy.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ft6wwvl5.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Fri, 02 Oct 2020 16:28:38 +0200)
> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: syohex@gmail.com, 43754@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2020 16:28:38 +0200
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > Any reason why we use OPTION_DEFAULT_IFAVAILABLE for json, and not
> > OPTION_DEFAULT_ON? How is it different from libpng or liblcms2 or
> > libgnutls?
>
> I wonder whether it's because of this:
>
> case $with_gnutls,$HAVE_GNUTLS in
> no,* | ifavailable,* | *,yes) ;;
> *) MISSING="$MISSING gnutls"
> WITH_IFAVAILABLE="$WITH_IFAVAILABLE --with-gnutls=ifavailable";;
> esac
> case $with_json,$HAVE_JSON in
> no,* | ifavailable,* | *,yes) ;;
> *) MISSING="$MISSING json"
> WITH_IFAVAILABLE="$WITH_IFAVAILABLE --with-json=ifavailable";;
> esac
The $MISSING part is for telling the users some libraries they might
want were not available. I'm saying that libjansson should be treated
the same as, say, libgnutls.
> But if I understand autoconf (and I do not), that shouldn't really
> "spread" to the OPTION_DEFAULT_ stuff, should it?
"Spread" in the sense that it should affect whether we use DEFAULT_ON
or DEFAULT_IFAVAILABLE? No, I don't think so.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-02 15:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-02 0:48 bug#43754: [PATCH] configure help message of --with-json Shohei Yoshida
2020-10-02 1:14 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-02 2:54 ` 황병희
2020-10-02 6:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-02 14:28 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-02 15:06 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2020-10-03 17:49 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-03 17:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
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