Re: enable -> with in configure.ac

Ben> Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: Ben> what do you mean? The Auto* people regularly change the semantics of their macros to enforce their ideas of what is appropriate usage. They made a raft of incompatible changes between 2.13 and 2.50, and have made more in the last few releases. They haven't tried to enforce the distinction between --with and --enable so far, but I can easily see them doing it by providing more features, specifically option validation, in the default semantics of those macros. But since I can't guess exactly what those features might be, it probably doesn't save any work in the long run. It definitely reduces confusion in the short run, so I guess you should go ahead. -- 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.