-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Ben Bergen on 9/27/2006 9:40 PM: > Does anyone know if it's possbile to define a configure option like > --cell-prefix="..." instead of --with or --enable? Possible? Perhaps. Recommended? No. It is a deliberate design decision of the GNU Coding Standards that all configuration tweaks are done with - --with- and --enable-, and that configure will ignore unknown options with these prefixes, so that you can package several projects into a larger configure with options for the subprojects set the same way. As a result, autoconf makes these two families of options easy to support, but does not really provide hooks for arbitrary other options. This topic has come up on the list before, so searching the archives may shed some more light on this topic. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake ebb9@xxxxxxx -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFG0fe84KuGfSFAYARAnaGAJ9lDtAYZWIfZIM+pgZXWoBTfzUeXwCgvYA+ TUaM9J949lIRshsaeZRlx7c= =K6JE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
