Hi Peff, Thanks for a very sensible suggestion! Philippe. > Le 14 févr. 2020 à 01:17, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> a écrit : > >> On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 05:08:06PM -0500, Philippe Blain wrote: >> >> Is there a way to force the configure script to error out if it does >> not find curl (or any one of the optional dependencies that I happen >> to need for my build?) > > I don't think so. It would probably be possible for configure.ac to > behave this way. Looking at the code, I think GIT_PARSE_WITH would have > to record the affirmative for "--with" instead of just canceling a > previous "--without", and then the part that does curl auto-detection > would need to complain if it doesn't find curl at that point. > > But our use of autoconf is not very extensive, and in fact most > developers do not use it at all. If you know you want curl, you're > better off just overriding it explicitly with the Makefile knob: > > make NO_CURL= > > or: > > echo NO_CURL= >>config.mak > make > > Either of those will override the NO_CURL setting done by the configure > script (you can see the full list of knobs set by configure in > config.mak.autogen). > > -Peff
