Thread: configure --with-xxxx problem
I notice configure from 6.5 cvs doesn't checks anything after --with
option. First time I run
./configure --with-port=5433
and was very surprised when postmaster doesn't want to start with port=5433
after compilation and installation. Configure doesn't complaints !!!
It takes some time when I realized I had to
./configure --with-pgport=5433
Also, you can specify any option begins from --with-
configure will not complain about unknown option, just silently ignore it.
Regards,
Oleg
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Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su> writes:
> you can specify any option begins from --with-
> configure will not complain about unknown option, just silently ignore it.
This has always been true with every version of autoconf --- it's one of
the less well designed aspects of autoconf IMHO. The GNU folk claim
it's a feature, but I don't think so... (*)
regards, tom lane
(*) their reasoning is that you can pass the same set of --with flags
to every configure script in a large source tree without worrying about
exactly which packages want which options. Perhaps that really is
useful for building a ton of GNU tools together, but it sure hurts
user-friendliness otherwise.
> (*) their reasoning is that you can pass the same set of --with flags > to every configure script in a large source tree without worrying about > exactly which packages want which options. Perhaps that really is > useful for building a ton of GNU tools together, but it sure hurts > user-friendliness otherwise. That should be easy to make configurable: they'd just have to add a flag '--ignore-unsupported-options' to make this optional behaviour. Maarten -- Maarten Boekhold, boekhold@tibco.com TIBCO Finance Technology Inc. The Atrium Strawinskylaan 3051 1077 ZX Amsterdam, The Netherlands tel: +31 20 3012158, fax: +31 20 3012358 http://www.tibco.com
> Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su> writes: > > you can specify any option begins from --with- > > configure will not complain about unknown option, just silently ignore it. > > This has always been true with every version of autoconf --- it's one of > the less well designed aspects of autoconf IMHO. The GNU folk claim > it's a feature, but I don't think so... (*) > > regards, tom lane > > (*) their reasoning is that you can pass the same set of --with flags > to every configure script in a large source tree without worrying about > exactly which packages want which options. Perhaps that really is > useful for building a ton of GNU tools together, but it sure hurts > user-friendliness otherwise. I totally agree. If they had an option to disregard unknown options that would be OK, but never to make it the default. -- Bruce Momjian | http://www.op.net/~candle maillist@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 853-3000+ If your life is a hard drive, | 830 Blythe Avenue + Christ can be your backup. | Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania19026