On 12/03/2013 05:45 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote: > I'll probably do this in coreutils configure.ac before gl_INIT, > so as to at least set the default as coreutils wants and caters for, > and allowing users to --without-openssl if they want. > > dnl Enable use of libcrypto by default > AS_VAR_SET_IF([with_openssl], [], [with_openssl=maybe])
OK, but this means that the configure --help output is still wrong, since it says the default is 'no'? > > Hmm, I don't think the above mentioned fail if not available? > I'm using "maybe" above anyway, so that "yes" may be > treated like this in future. Perhaps I'm reading too much into the standards, but that's how --with-jpeg etc. behave in GNU Emacs 'configure'.