Re: --disable-dependency-tracking

2009-09-02 Thread Toby Peterson
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 09:59, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > On Sep 2, 2009, at 11:56, Toby Peterson wrote: > >>> I don't know what dependency tracking does, but since the default is to >>> enable it, I assume it's useful for something. Does anybody know what >>> it's >>> for or what consequences disabling

Re: --disable-dependency-tracking

2009-09-02 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Sep 2, 2009, at 11:56, Toby Peterson wrote: I don't know what dependency tracking does, but since the default is to enable it, I assume it's useful for something. Does anybody know what it's for or what consequences disabling it could have? The primary consequence is that builds would b

Re: --disable-dependency-tracking

2009-09-02 Thread Toby Peterson
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 02:16, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > On Sep 2, 2009, at 03:39, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > >> The GNU Coding Standards don't mention --disable-dependency-tracking >> because it is not an option universally recognized. In fact, this is >> a specific option

Re: --disable-dependency-tracking

2009-09-02 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Sep 2, 2009, at 03:39, Vincent Lefevre wrote: The GNU Coding Standards don't mention --disable-dependency-tracking because it is not an option universally recognized. In fact, this is a specific option defined by automake. Software not based on automake probably don't have such

Re: --disable-dependency-tracking

2009-09-02 Thread Vincent Lefevre
er, it's simply a difference in how optipng's > configure script functions vs. how some other programs' configure > scripts function. MacPorts has to have some sort of default > behavior, and the default of including --disable-dependency-tracking > reflected the best guess o

--disable-dependency-tracking

2009-09-01 Thread Ryan Schmidt
the --disable-dependency-tracking configure option with the universal variant, even though this option is not standard: http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html#Configuration Closes #21002. As I recall, all versions of MacPorts that have had a universal variant have added the --disable