On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 11:25:28AM -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > Tom Lane wrote: > > Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> writes: > > > I would like a pedantic mode, but the method of activation is a tricky > > > issue. You want it to be 'on' for normal users but 'off' for automatic > > > build scripts. > > > > A quiet mode would work better, because it could be on by default for > > both cases. However, people may be too used to expecting to see chatter > > from configure scripts --- anyone who's used a few before would probably > > think the script was hung :-( > > Maybe have it emit single chars instead of lines for each check? That > way it looks like something's going on. Not sure how difficult that is > with autoconf.
That would be useful, though personally I'd much rather have the default be to error-out if it gets garbage arguments. If we provided a flag that disabled that, all porters would have to do is to add that to the myriad of flags they're already passing in. In the meantime, +1 to adding some whitespace around the warning... I'd suggest two blank lines before and after. -- Jim Nasby [EMAIL PROTECTED] EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com 512.569.9461 (cell) ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
