From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Merging bignum to master Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2018 09:51:41 +0200 Message-ID: References: <877ekwu1mn.fsf@tromey.com> <48742e8c-fffb-7fe0-bb12-2ce3dc171603@cs.ucla.edu> <837ekvlau2.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1534146599 24176 195.159.176.226 (13 Aug 2018 07:49:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2018 07:49:59 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , ulm@gentoo.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 13 09:49:54 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fp7bs-000686-St for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 Aug 2018 09:49:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37931 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fp7dx-0007oy-J3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 Aug 2018 03:52:01 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41577) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fp7dn-0007oq-Nw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Aug 2018 03:51:52 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fp7dn-00059w-0s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Aug 2018 03:51:51 -0400 Original-Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:47724 helo=mx1.suse.de) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fp7di-00058M-EY; Mon, 13 Aug 2018 03:51:46 -0400 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at test-mx.suse.de Original-Received: from relay2.suse.de (unknown [195.135.220.254]) by mx1.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 138A0AE41; Mon, 13 Aug 2018 07:51:43 +0000 (UTC) X-Yow: My mind is a potato field... In-Reply-To: (Paul Eggert's message of "Sun, 12 Aug 2018 16:53:07 -0700") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x (no timestamps) [generic] X-Received-From: 195.135.220.15 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:228468 Archived-At: On Aug 12 2018, Paul Eggert 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. -- Andreas Schwab, SUSE Labs, schwab@suse.de GPG Key fingerprint = 0196 BAD8 1CE9 1970 F4BE 1748 E4D4 88E3 0EEA B9D7 "And now for something completely different."