Stepan Kasal wrote, quoting me: >> On Wednesday 28 December 2005 12:28 am, Chris Telting wrote: >>> I am trying to add an option that would instruct it not to build gcclib. >>> >>> something like: configure --nogcclib >> >> AC_ARG_ENABLE([gcclib],... or AC_ARG_WITH([gcclib],... depending on >> your taste; [...] > > not only taste matters here: "enable" is meant for features of the package, > while "with" is meant for cooperation with external packages, > eg. --without-x. Well, since the behaviour of the two is fundamentally identical, the distinction is somewhat subjective, and therefore, IMHO, something of a matter for personal taste, (in which section of `configure --help' output would you like the option description to appear), but ... > IMHO, AC_ARG_ENABLE([gcclib],... would be more appropriate. given the documented guidelines, I would tend to agree that AC_ARG_ENABLE is probably the more appropriate, in this case; however, the OP may think that `--without-gcclib' makes better semantic sense than `--enable-gcclib' for his particular implementation. Regards, Keith. _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
