On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, Dalibor Topic wrote: > > Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > > You can use Automake conditionals. These are configure-time > > conditionals rather than make-time conditionals. > > > > You could add --with-check and --with-prof options to your configure > > script which enables these conditionals. > > Done. But shouldn't it be called --enable instead of --with? I thought > --with was for external packages, and --enable was for features.
Sure, that is true in principle. Just don't tell anyone that I offered bad advice. :-) The --with-prof is actually reasonable since the compiler will use a different startup object file and may select different libraries. > > If your package preserves the capability to build outside of the > > source tree, then your users can simply maintain seperate builds with > > the desired options enabled. > > Yeah, but the problem is that it makes some things, like doing a quick > debugging or profiling build, be a little more trouble than before. > Since you need to either keep the separate build around (and you may not > need it all the time), and remeber to reconfigure when a part of the > build machinery has changed, or you have to re-run configure each time, > which is a bit of a waste of time, if all you want to have is a some > CFLAGS mixing. Your desire for CFLAGS mixing could just as easily result in a mixed up build with different flavors of objects. A build dictated entirely by the Makefile is the only way to ensure a consistent built. Bob ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen
