The current state of move to autoconf 2.5

[Michael Sperber]

>>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen J Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org> writes:

>>>>> "ms" == Michael Sperber <sperber at informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> writes:

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?

Stephen> Not as far as I can see.  My taste differs from Malcolm's in several
Stephen> cases.  AFAICT the implementations of --enable-xxx and --with-xxx are
Stephen> basically identical.

I don't know about the technicalities---but how hard is it to just
drop the ---with and --enable prefixes entirely?  If not, I believe we
should just go with one of the two.

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Cheers =8-} Mike
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