Re: [HACKERS] configure --with-xxxx problem

> Oleg Bartunov <oleg(at)sai(dot)msu(dot)su> writes:
> > you can specify any option begins from --with-
> > configure will not complain about unknown option, just silently ignore it.
>
> This has always been true with every version of autoconf --- it's one of
> the less well designed aspects of autoconf IMHO. The GNU folk claim
> it's a feature, but I don't think so... (*)
>
> regards, tom lane
>
> (*) their reasoning is that you can pass the same set of --with flags
> to every configure script in a large source tree without worrying about
> exactly which packages want which options. Perhaps that really is
> useful for building a ton of GNU tools together, but it sure hurts
> user-friendliness otherwise.

I totally agree. If they had an option to disregard unknown options
that would be OK, but never to make it the default.

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