flags for base's configure script: should there be more or fewer? (was Fwd: [MacPorts] #42756: macports doesn't compile with bundled tcl)

2014-03-07 Thread Eric Gallager
Bringing this discussion to macports-dev as suggested. Anyways, r117621https://trac.macports.org/changeset/117621 removed a bunch of flags from the configure script in base, many of which I found useful. Personally, I generally prefer giving users more configure options rather than fewer, as I

Re: flags for base's configure script: should there be more or fewer? (was Fwd: [MacPorts] #42756: macports doesn't compile with bundled tcl)

2014-03-07 Thread Joshua Root
On 2014-3-8 07:13 , Eric Gallager wrote: Bringing this discussion to macports-dev as suggested. Anyways, r117621 https://trac.macports.org/changeset/117621 removed a bunch of flags from the configure script in base, many of which I found useful. Personally, I generally prefer giving users more

Re: flags for base's configure script: should there be more or fewer? (was Fwd: [MacPorts] #42756: macports doesn't compile with bundled tcl)

2014-03-07 Thread Eric Gallager
On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 4:09 PM, Joshua Root j...@macports.org wrote: On 2014-3-8 07:13 , Eric Gallager wrote: Bringing this discussion to macports-dev as suggested. Anyways, r117621 https://trac.macports.org/changeset/117621 removed a bunch of flags from the configure script in base, many

Re: flags for base's configure script: should there be more or fewer? (was Fwd: [MacPorts] #42756: macports doesn't compile with bundled tcl)

2014-03-07 Thread Jeremy Lavergne
From the article: Being called an inclusionist or deletionist can sidetrack the issue from the actual debate,[21]” On Mar 7, 2014, at 17:06, Eric Gallager eg...@gwmail.gwu.edu wrote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deletionism_and_inclusionism_in_Wikipedia

Re: flags for base's configure script: should there be more or fewer? (was Fwd: [MacPorts] #42756: macports doesn't compile with bundled tcl)

2014-03-07 Thread Lawrence Velázquez
On Mar 7, 2014, at 5:06 PM, Eric Gallager eg...@gwmail.gwu.edu wrote: libtasn1 is not actually something that gnutls maintains themselves, they only vendor it in as a convenience. Bringing it back to MacPorts, the copy of Tcl that is vendored in is more like libtasn1 in gnutls, in that

Re: flags for base's configure script: should there be more or fewer? (was Fwd: [MacPorts] #42756: macports doesn't compile with bundled tcl)

2014-03-07 Thread Clemens Lang
Hi, Many other software packages include other software packages as part of their base, and the general trend is to only use the included one as a fallback in case one is not already installed. For example I was working with the sources of gnutls earlier today and they only fall back to using