* Noah Misch wrote on Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 07:26:14PM CEST: > On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 12:30:35PM +0100, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: > > * libltdl/m4/options.m4 (_LT_WITH_PIC): Renamed... > > (_LT_ENABLE_PIC): ...this. Adjust all callers. The configure > > option is now `--enable-pic', since `--with-pic' implies that the > > user wants to compile in an optional external package called pic. > > * doc/libtool.texi: Update documentation to match. > > `pic' is not an external package, but it is also not an optional feature. In > particular, per Standards, `No `--enable' option should *ever* cause one > feature > to replace another.' --enable-pic effectively disables creation of the > non-pic > `.a' library and creates a PIC `.a' library. > > I suggest leaving things as they are or dropping the option entirely. There > has > been little mention of this option in the ChangeLog since 1999, when Thomas > Tanner added the feature. The mail archives on lists.gnu.org do not go back > that far; what was the use case for this feature? I cannot think of one.
FWIW, I would be OK with this. Gary, what do you think about just changing the thinko in the documentation and leaving the rest as-is? Cheers, Ralf