Hi there,
Until now it seems not possible to run gmake distcheck with additional
configuration switches. This requires that packages are completely
self-contained, or that they can locate required external packages during
configure. However, this is not always desirable or even possible. Furthermore,
sometimes one wants to perform a distcheck with extra compile time configuration
(to turn on debug information for example, or to enable/disable conditional
parts of a system).
For this reason it would be nice to be able to control the configuration during
gmake distcheck. I would suggest the following:
Add the variable $(DISTCHECK_CONF) to the line containing
configure in the distcheck target in distdir.am:
&& ../configure --srcdir=.. --prefix=$$dc_install_base $(DISTCHECK_CONF)\
One can now specify a particular configuration on the command line. For
instance:
gmake distcheck DISTCHECK_CONF="--with-my-pkg=/opt/mypkg --with-debug"
Any comments on this would be appreciated.
Best regards,
Merijn de Jonge
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