Re: ACL and --without-all

[Dmitry Antipov]

On 08/16/2013 11:38 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> Paul Eggert writes:
>   > Dmitry Antipov wrote:
>
>   > > Also I believe that it should be --with/--without, not --enable/--disable.
>   >
>   > Other GNU packages use --enable/--disable, though;
>   > it's better to be consistent.
>
> The --enable/--with distinction is unnecessary and hard to understand.

I always treat this distinction as follows.

--with-X means that X is the feature 'of it's own', externally implemented
(mostly as a library), more or less independent from other features enabled
with other --with= options, and makes sense outside of the Emacs code.
That's why --with-dbus, --with-png and so it should be --with-acl (IMHO).

--enable-X means that X is the feature of our own (Emacs) code, and mostly
affects everything enabled with --with option. For example, --enable-debug
turns eassert into something useful everywhere, --enable-link-time-optimization
causes linking with lto1 backend for all object files, etc.

Dmitry