From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: Dmitry Antipov <dmantipov@yandex.ru>,
Emacs development discussions <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: ACL and --without-all
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 16:38:33 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bo4yhypy.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <520DC7E5.3000208@cs.ucla.edu>
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.
XEmacs simply makes --with-foo and --enable-foo equivalent by
automatically defining both the --with-foo option and the --enable-foo
option, automatically setting the corresponding with_foo variable when
the --enable-foo option is used, and ignoring the enable_foo variable.
When it makes sense to have a --enable-foo option and a --with-foo-lib
option, that's exactly what we do.
Works great, for developers and users. No backward-compatibility
complaints about this system in 10 years, either. Apparently it never
broke ./configure --recheck or anybody's scripts.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-16 7:38 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 [this message]
2013-08-19 3:53 ` Dmitry Antipov
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