From: Dmitry Antipov <dmantipov@yandex.ru>
To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>,
Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>,
Emacs development discussions <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: ACL and --without-all
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 07:53:16 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <521196AC.6010507@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bo4yhypy.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>
On 08/16/2013 11:38 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Paul Eggert writes:
> > Dmitry Antipov wrote:
>
> > > Also I believe that it should be --with/--without, not --enable/--disable.
> >
> > Other GNU packages use --enable/--disable, though;
> > it's better to be consistent.
>
> The --enable/--with distinction is unnecessary and hard to understand.
I always treat this distinction as follows.
--with-X means that X is the feature 'of it's own', externally implemented
(mostly as a library), more or less independent from other features enabled
with other --with= options, and makes sense outside of the Emacs code.
That's why --with-dbus, --with-png and so it should be --with-acl (IMHO).
--enable-X means that X is the feature of our own (Emacs) code, and mostly
affects everything enabled with --with option. For example, --enable-debug
turns eassert into something useful everywhere, --enable-link-time-optimization
causes linking with lto1 backend for all object files, etc.
Dmitry
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-19 3:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-15 17:19 ACL and --without-all Dmitry Antipov
2013-08-16 6:34 ` Paul Eggert
2013-08-16 7:38 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-08-19 3:53 ` Dmitry Antipov [this message]
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