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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: Carsten Mattner <carstenmattner@gmail.com>
Cc: Dmitry Antipov <dmantipov@yandex.ru>,
	Emacs development discussions <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: --disable-features in 109483
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2012 15:59:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2haseyf9f.fsf@igel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACY+Hvrw5vacEs4EmjnhyXOQgG7Or6K+ZEaeBo3FwxoC32mB_g@mail.gmail.com> (Carsten Mattner's message of "Tue, 7 Aug 2012 14:51:33 +0200")

Carsten Mattner <carstenmattner@gmail.com> writes:

> On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Dmitry Antipov <dmantipov@yandex.ru> wrote:
>> Commit 109483 introduces --disable-features, which is intended to
>> build small executable with the minimal dependencies; if someone
>> finds this option useless, confusing or just thinks that something
>> like --enable-minimal-build may be a bit better, please let me know.
>
> --disable-features sounds like it has a mandatory list of features to
> disable like '--disable-features=xft,xml2'. --enable-minimal-build isn't
> as ambiguous.

Incidentally, --disable-foo never accepts an argument, whereas
--enable-foo does (and --disable-foo is the same as --enable-foo=no).

Andreas.

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-08-07 13:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-07 12:48 --disable-features in 109483 Dmitry Antipov
2012-08-07 12:51 ` Carsten Mattner
2012-08-07 13:59   ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2012-08-07 14:49     ` Dani Moncayo
2012-08-07 21:36       ` chad
2012-08-08  3:33 ` Chong Yidong
2012-08-08  4:10   ` Dmitry Antipov
2012-08-08  4:25     ` andres.ramirez
2012-08-08  4:25     ` andres.ramirez
2012-08-08  6:39       ` Dmitry Antipov
2012-08-08  7:02     ` Chong Yidong
2012-08-08 22:15       ` Richard Stallman
2012-08-08 12:31     ` Stefan Monnier

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