Re: enable-foo vs. with-foo is illogical

Ben> I'm a little confused. What is the objection to just using `with-foo' Ben> always, and never using `enable-foo' at all, no aliasing provided? The objection is: That's not the way autoconf 2.5X would like it done. For the sake of comparison listed below are the configure options for XEmacs 21.5, GNU Emacs from CVS, Mozilla, xscreensaver and PostgreSQL. I chose these because they're all fairly large and complex packages. Mozilla tends to prefer --enable while the rest have a larger proportion of --with. Selecting a X toolkit can be either, but in other areas our choices are not too dissimilar to existing practise. However this list does show is that we have a very large number of options, especially compared to GNU Emacs. Do we need them all? --with just fine and won't cause our configuration script any extra problems when we upgrade. Autoconf 2.5X documentation and culture prefer using --with and --enable. Which way shall we go? 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