From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: --disable-features in 109483 Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2012 15:59:24 +0200 Message-ID: References: <50210E9F.7020106@yandex.ru> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1344347980 2084 80.91.229.3 (7 Aug 2012 13:59:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2012 13:59:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Dmitry Antipov , Emacs development discussions To: Carsten Mattner Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 07 15:59:40 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SykJv-0003lf-PJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Aug 2012 15:59:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59785 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SykJv-00082v-1z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Aug 2012 09:59:39 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:41306) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SykJp-0007zi-M3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Aug 2012 09:59:37 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SykJk-00049M-L9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Aug 2012 09:59:33 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-out.m-online.net ([212.18.0.9]:35131) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SykJk-000490-Ev for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Aug 2012 09:59:28 -0400 Original-Received: from frontend1.mail.m-online.net (unknown [192.168.8.180]) by mail-out.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3Wry5T6S1xz4KK2H; Tue, 7 Aug 2012 15:59:25 +0200 (CEST) X-Auth-Info: Ihdc0TqnuZMrz1TxwlaHk1Gj4OWLJqJ5uDzrVpJW70o= Original-Received: from igel.home (ppp-93-104-155-207.dynamic.mnet-online.de [93.104.155.207]) by mail.mnet-online.de (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 3Wry5T61BNzbbhS; Tue, 7 Aug 2012 15:59:25 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by igel.home (Postfix, from userid 501) id 47E08CA2A2; Tue, 7 Aug 2012 15:59:24 +0200 (CEST) X-Yow: Look into my eyes and try to forget that you have a Macy's charge card! In-Reply-To: (Carsten Mattner's message of "Tue, 7 Aug 2012 14:51:33 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-Received-From: 212.18.0.9 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:152249 Archived-At: Carsten Mattner writes: > On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Dmitry Antipov 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. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."