[Q] [PATCH] Configure fixes for motif and error-checking.

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

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

    Stephen> Unfortunately, for me it is no longer possible to select
    Stephen> individual types.

>>>>> "Malcolm" == Malcolm Purvis <malcolmp at xemacs.org> writes:

    Malcolm> That's because we have another policy of turning on all
    Malcolm> error checking by default in beta releases.

Sure, but to me "by default" is what I get if I say _nothing_.  But if
I say "I want this, that, and the other", I expect to get those and
only those.  (This is sort-of like the --with-cflags-optimization flag
not turning on optimization.)  I don't think I will be the only one
surprised by the current behavior.

I think we _do_ want to strongly encourage use of error-checking, so I
don't mind this property, but it should be documented.

How about a

# Warning: all error-checking defaults ON; you must explicitly disable
# it for each type.
# Warning:  Use --enable-error-checking=none,... to reset the default to
# OFF for all types.

in the configure output/Installation file?


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