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Re: The havelib module
From: |
Sylvain Beucler |
Subject: |
Re: The havelib module |
Date: |
Sat, 7 Feb 2009 09:59:59 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) |
On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 11:49:51PM +0100, Simon Josefsson wrote:
> Sylvain Beucler <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > The AC_LIB_HAVE_LINKFLAGS macro generates options like
> > "--with-libmylib-prefix".
>
> Note that it also generate options like --with-libmylib.
>
> The --with-libmylib-prefix is there to allow users to set the path to
> where mylib will be found.
>
> The --without-libmylib-prefix is there to allow users to disable
> automatic searching for mylib in $prefix.
>
> This is somewhat surprising, but it is useful once you know it. Read
> the docstrings for the parameters carefully.
>
> > It sounds a bit unclear to specify options such as
> > --without-libmylib-prefix to disable "mylib" (i.e. it sounds like
> > we're disabling mylib's *additional prefix* only, "--without-mylib"
> > would be more straightforward).
>
> It actually works as you think it should work, I believe. Use
> --without-mylib to disable mylib.
Hmmm, true.
I got confused because `./configure --help` documents
'--with-libmylib-prefix', but doesn't mention '--with-mylib'.
Is this a bug?
--
Sylvain
- The havelib module, Sylvain Beucler, 2009/02/02
- Re: The havelib module, Simon Josefsson, 2009/02/02
- Re: The havelib module, Sylvain Beucler, 2009/02/06
- Re: The havelib module, Simon Josefsson, 2009/02/06
- Re: The havelib module,
Sylvain Beucler <=
- Re: The havelib module, Simon Josefsson, 2009/02/07
- Re: The havelib module, Sylvain Beucler, 2009/02/07
- Re: The havelib module, Simon Josefsson, 2009/02/07
- Re: The havelib module, Sylvain Beucler, 2009/02/07
- Re: The havelib module, Simon Josefsson, 2009/02/07
- Re: The havelib module, Eric Blake, 2009/02/07
- Re: The havelib module, Sylvain Beucler, 2009/02/07
- Re: The havelib module, Bruno Haible, 2009/02/08
- Re: The havelib module, Sylvain Beucler, 2009/02/09
Re: The havelib module, Bruno Haible, 2009/02/08