I've been busy with building lately, especially with building on Fedora
18 with the --with-system-libs switch, which should be used for
packaging in Fedora. This is preparation work for the Fedora 19 packaging.
To isolate the problematic dependencies, I configure with something like
./configure --with-system-libs --without-system-NAME1
--without-system-NAME2 [...]
The effect in general is that the "without" switch overrides the generic
"--with-system-libs". So for example
./configure --with-system-libs --without-system-libxslt
won't use the system library.
Now, some libraries use a different convention:
./configure --with-system-libs --without-system-serf
will still use the system library and not override the generic choice.
You can see the different patterns in
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/openoffice/trunk/main/configure.in?view=markup
(4002-4003 for the former pattern, 4579 for the latter)
Any technical reasons for that? Otherwise I'll assume lazy consensus and
modify configure.in to use the former pattern consistently, at least in
the cases where I need it.
The patch would be a variant of:
-if test "x$with_system_serf" = "xyes" -o -n "$with_system_libs"; then
+if test -n "$with_system_serf" -o -n "$with_system_libs" && \
+ test "$with_system_serf" != "no"; then
Regards,
Andrea.
