On Wed, 10 May 2006, Alan Robertson wrote: > Brian A. Seklecki wrote: > > > > When this macro fails, it sets: > > > > config.log:SWIG='swig not found' > > config.status:s,@SWIG@,swig not found,;t t > > > > ...instead of causing a configure failure. This pasive failure later > > translates into attemps to exec the program "swig" with argument "not > > present". > > > > We might add a hook to check if --disable-swig is not set to make that > > fatal. --disable-swig is set by ConfigureMe in ConfigureLinux(), but > > that's it. > > > We really shouldn't have a --disable-swig option any more. Or at least > if we do, we need to also --disable-mgmt (or eventually > --disable-mgmt-client).
Just a quick check on semantics... At first read, I interpreted: "really shouldn't have a --disable-swig option any more" to mean "swig is now compulsory", therefore fatal configure-time error. But perhaps you mean it falls into the "nice but not essential" category that we now handle with "--enable-XXX=try" constructions. For the sake of new users getting something, anything, started being tolerant of lack of optional components is very desirable. Therefore lack of (an optional) swig should not be a fatal configure-time error (although it might well issue a warning about reduced functionality). So if swig isn't actually essential, then "--enable-swig=try" would be the ideal default. (Of course, this may expose internal configure bugs if the configure stuff doesn't correctly follow this through, but we have other instances to act as a model to get this right.) But perhaps you meant "lack of swig implies that the mgmt stuff cannot build, therefore implies we must also '--disable-mgmt-client'". Could you clarify? Thanks. (Sorry I've been so quiet on the list after the flurry of activity a few weeks ago. Fluctuating local circumstances...) -- : David Lee I.T. Service : : Senior Systems Programmer Computer Centre : : Durham University : : http://www.dur.ac.uk/t.d.lee/ South Road : : Durham DH1 3LE : : Phone: +44 191 334 2752 U.K. : _______________________________________________________ Linux-HA-Dev: Linux-HA-Dev@lists.linux-ha.org http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha-dev Home Page: http://linux-ha.org/
