Hello Thomas, Sorry for the delay. * Thomas Porschberg wrote on Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 07:38:25AM CEST: > > I wrote some m4 macros for the boost libraries(see > http://randspringer.de/boost/index.html). > ATM the default behavior is that the user has to give > --with-boost, --with-boost-files-date-time.... > to the configure script in order to set the boost compile/linker flags > (the last parameter of AC_ARG_WITH sets want_boost="no"). > > Is there any disadvantage to make the default behavior want_boost="yes" > so that user doesn't need to tell anything to configure ? For (very) simple macros I try to do this: --with-foo enable use of package FOO, error out if it does not work --without-foo disable use of package FOO user specifies nothing if possible, enable use of package FOO (but no error otherwise) YMMV, though. Cheers, Ralf _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
