Am Mon, 14 Aug 2006 18:05:22 +0200 schrieb Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@xxxxxx>: > 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) > Hello Ralf, sounds reasonable to me and I will go this way for the boost macros. Thank you. Thomas > YMMV, though. > > Cheers, > Ralf > > > _______________________________________________ > Autoconf mailing list > Autoconf@xxxxxxx > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf -- NO ePatents: http://swpat.ffii.org/index.de.html _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
