Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> The other day, I did a test build of "everything", which involved
> specifying 17 command-line arguments to configure. This is probably the
> reason why some fringe features are not tested very often: the list of
> options is pretty overwhelming.
"--with-everything"? Or more usefully, "--with-everything --without-perl"
if, say, you don't have Perl installed.
Or you could just reverse the defaults on all the options, but that'd
likely provoke a revolt.
> I remembered that in the old days PHP had an interactive setup script,
Perl's got one of those too, and I hate it ...
regards, tom lane