Re: The current state of move to autoconf 2.5

ms> I find myself confused by the dichotomy between --enable-xxx ms> and --with-xxx (especially as the configure script seems to ms> know it's easy to get confused). Is there any easy way to ms> predict when it's which one? Not as far as I can see. My taste differs from Malcolm's in several cases. AFAICT the implementations of --enable-xxx and --with-xxx are basically identical. The official take is that "enable" means to switch on code inside of the application, while "with" means a specific external program needed to support the feature. So, "--with-xemacs-compiler=g++" makes sense (g++ is an external application), but which is the appropriate migration path for "--ldflags"? How about the widgets, where any of several libraries might be autodetected, but in the case of the Athena 3d lossage you need to specify "--with-athena=FLAVOR"? In a lot of cases which ever you choose sounds awkward. -- School of Systems and Information Engineering http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.