From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, ulm@gentoo.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Merging bignum to master
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2018 09:51:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <mvm36vipuuq.fsf@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ce2894e3-9d35-685f-ad80-311099f02fed@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Sun, 12 Aug 2018 16:53:07 -0700")
On Aug 12 2018, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> I think other packages use --enable-mini-gmp, so maybe we should name
>> the option the same, for consistency.
>
> The GNU coding standards say that --enable is supposed to be for adding
> user-level facilities, which this is not: the user-level behavior does not
> change. Conversely, the coding standards say that --with is appropriate
> for choosing to use a library like GMP. So --with-SOMETHING seems more
> appropriate here than --enable-SOMETHING.
The autoconf manual says about --enable: "They should only cause parts
of the program to be built rather than left out." The mini-gmp source
is a part of the sources, and --enable-mini-gmp enables the use of it.
--with is for external dependencies.
Andreas.
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Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-08-11 19:47 Merging bignum to master Tom Tromey
2018-08-11 21:28 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2018-08-12 16:34 ` Tom Tromey
2018-08-13 12:21 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2018-08-14 0:21 ` Andy Moreton
2018-08-15 23:41 ` Andy Moreton
2018-08-16 15:38 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2018-08-19 8:26 ` Paul Eggert
2018-08-17 14:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-12 6:29 ` Ulrich Mueller
2018-08-12 8:09 ` Paul Eggert
2018-08-12 17:21 ` Ulrich Mueller
2018-08-12 18:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-12 19:30 ` Ulrich Mueller
2018-08-13 0:15 ` Paul Eggert
2018-08-12 18:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-12 23:53 ` Paul Eggert
2018-08-13 0:20 ` Tom Tromey
2018-08-13 7:51 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2018-08-13 8:06 ` Ulrich Mueller
2018-08-13 9:14 ` Paul Eggert
2018-08-14 23:09 ` Paul Eggert
2018-08-16 2:46 ` Richard Stallman
2018-08-13 23:31 ` Richard Stallman
2018-08-14 1:41 ` Paul Eggert
2018-08-16 2:41 ` Richard Stallman
2018-08-16 19:31 ` Paul Eggert
2018-08-16 22:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-08-12 7:37 ` John Wiegley
2018-08-12 18:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-12 11:48 ` Pip Cet
2018-08-12 16:02 ` Tom Tromey
2018-08-13 22:58 ` Paul Eggert
2018-08-14 1:12 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-08-14 13:04 ` Pip Cet
2018-08-14 18:01 ` Paul Eggert
2018-08-15 15:20 ` Pip Cet
2018-08-15 16:17 ` Paul Eggert
2018-08-15 23:57 ` Andy Moreton
2018-08-16 22:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-08-20 16:28 ` Some vars now limited to fixnum size. (Was: Merging bignum to master) Karl Fogel
2018-08-20 16:54 ` Paul Eggert
2018-08-20 17:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-20 17:27 ` Paul Eggert
2018-08-20 18:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-20 19:55 ` Pip Cet
2018-08-20 23:15 ` Paul Eggert
2018-08-21 15:01 ` Some vars now limited to fixnum size Tom Tromey
2018-08-21 16:36 ` Andy Moreton
2018-08-21 18:46 ` Paul Eggert
2018-08-22 15:39 ` Tom Tromey
2018-08-21 3:38 ` Some vars now limited to fixnum size. (Was: Merging bignum to master) Richard Stallman
2018-08-21 4:09 ` Paul Eggert
2018-08-22 4:03 ` Richard Stallman
2018-08-22 4:53 ` Paul Eggert
2018-08-20 17:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-14 0:51 ` Merging bignum to master Andy Moreton
2018-08-15 15:46 ` Andy Moreton
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