From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 32749 invoked by alias); 30 Oct 2009 21:30:56 -0000 Received: (qmail 32735 invoked by uid 22791); 30 Oct 2009 21:30:56 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from rock.gnat.com (HELO rock.gnat.com) (205.232.38.15) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:30:53 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74DCC2BAC53; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:30:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rock.gnat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (rock.gnat.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id Rxkp9-I+GioM; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:30:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: from joel.gnat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E9052BABC1; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:30:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: by joel.gnat.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 8403EF5921; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:30:45 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:30:00 -0000 From: Joel Brobecker To: Jan Kratochvil Cc: binutils@sourceware.org, gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [RFA] Add support for --without-zlib (was --disable-zlib) Message-ID: <20091030213045.GB8029@adacore.com> References: <20091030182157.GS24532@adacore.com> <20091030212114.GA8158@host0.dyn.jankratochvil.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20091030212114.GA8158@host0.dyn.jankratochvil.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2009-10/txt/msg00702.txt.bz2 > It should be more systematic to use AC_ARG_WITH than AC_ARG_ENABLE as it is > about a dependency on external software as described in the autoconf manual. Makes sense, indeed. I wanted to avoid --with-zlib because I wanted to avoid the confusion with a possible --with-zlib-prefix. > And I would prefer to be also able to force the requirement - it makes the > vendor packaging sanity checking of prerequisited packages easier. Agreed. I will post a new set of patches later. -- Joel