Re: Making --config-cache the default

2004-06-25 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 03:37:12PM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 22 lines which said: > > I have a huge configure script, with libtools tests, > > subdirectories, ... > On the first invocation, it will not be any faster than without -C > anyway. It is *much* fas

Re: ac_arg_enable invalid option

2004-06-25 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 03:40:04PM -0700, John Ling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 21 lines which said: > Hello, I am currently using ac_arg_enable to define several > --enable-feature options. However, if a user were to specify an > --enable-feature option that was invalid (that I did

Re: ac_arg_enable invalid option

2004-06-25 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, 25 Jun 2004, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 03:40:04PM -0700, > John Ling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > a message of 21 lines which said: > > > Hello, I am currently using ac_arg_enable to define several > > --enable-feature options. However, if a user were to specif

Re: ac_arg_enable invalid option

2004-06-25 Thread John Ling
As I do not use multiple packages, from my point of view this is a very bad behaviour. I agree that it would be nice to have the option to turn on strict checking of such of --enable-FEATURE. Guess I'll have to live with this. John Thomas Dickey wrote: On Fri, 25 Jun 2004, Stephane Bortzmeyer w

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Re: ac_arg_enable invalid option

2004-06-25 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, 25 Jun 2004, John Ling wrote: > As I do not use multiple packages, from my point of view this is a very > bad behaviour. I agree that it would be nice to have the option to turn > on strict checking of such of --enable-FEATURE. > > Guess I'll have to live with this. probably right (since

Re: ac_arg_enable invalid option

2004-06-25 Thread Ben Pfaff
Stephane Bortzmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It is a feature, not a bug. From the documentation, node "Choosing > Package Options": > >`configure' scripts do not complain about `--enable-FEATURE' options > that they do not support. This behavior permits configuring a source > tree contai

Spurious failures with -x autotest option

2004-06-25 Thread Noah Misch
Consider this comment in lib/autotest/general.m4 concerning behavior when the user passes -x to a test suite: # Any line of stderr starting with leading blanks and a `+' are filtered # out, since most shells when tracing include subshell traces in stderr. # This may cause spurious failures when th