On Fri, 5 Oct 2007 13:21:27 +0200 Albin Tonnerre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
babbled:

> On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 03:10:08PM +0900, Carsten Haitzler wrote :
> > On Mon, 1 Oct 2007 20:07:41 +0200 Albin Tonnerre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > babbled:
> > 
> > > 
> > > While we're talking about configure... :)
> > > I'm part of the team which packages E for debian, and there's something in
> > > configure we'd really like to see changed (and of course we can provide
> > > patches):
> > > What we think is that when you enable a feature with
> > > --enable-whatever, and if the requirements of that feature are not found,
> > > configure should fail rather than silently disable it.
> > > The rationale for that is that, in our humble opinions, when you package
> > > for a distro, you want the stuff you enable to be actually present -
> > > thus, fail if not found rather than disable and tell nothing.
> > > As per discussion with raster on irc, I'm sure that some people may not
> > > want this behavior, and thus thought we could possibly add a
> > > --whatever-name-we-could-call-it , which implements such behavior (and
> > > let the default as it is)
> > > 
> > > Thoughts ? (hint: 'this is your distro's problem" is not a valid answer)
> > 
> > we like our soft fallback so our build scripts can blindly run and adapt to
> > system features :) this is a difference in philosophy i guess. do you take
> > an error as a hard error - or a soft error. we go for soft. that's because
> > we're all warm and fuzzy at heart! :)
> >
> 
> That's why my proposal wasn't to make such a behavior a default, but an
> alternative :)

we could - with a --enable-strict-dependencies or something... but then we'd
have to go do something... got patches? :) (me - i've only got milk).

> Regards
> 
> > > Regards,
> > > Albin Tonnerre
> > > 
> > > On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 03:01:32PM -0700, Michael Jennings wrote :
> > > > On Sunday, 30 September 2007, at 16:04:54 (+0200),
> > > > Vincent Torri wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > Since I try to port the efl on windows, I've run into some problems
> > > > > with autofoo (strange, isn't it ?). I've looked a bit at autoconf and
> > > > > libtool doc, and I think that configure.in scripts can be improved a
> > > > > bit.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Here is what I propose. Feel free to tell me if my proposals are not 
> > > > > correct.
> > > > > 
> > > > > ...
> > > > > 
> > > > > Ideas ? remarks ?
> > > > 
> > > > Most of that sounds fine, but why not provide us with a sample
> > > > configure.in with examples of all 5 changes made to it so we can get a
> > > > more concrete idea of what you're wanting to do?  Then if people have
> > > > any specific objections, they're easier to note.
> > > > 
> > > > Michael
> > > > 
> > > > -- 
> > > > Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX)  http://www.kainx.org/  <[EMAIL 
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> > > Albin Tonnerre, aka Lutin
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> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" --------------
> > The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler)    [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > 裸好多
> > Tokyo, Japan (東京 日本)
> 
> -- 
> Albin Tonnerre, aka Lutin
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> 


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The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler)    [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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