Re: Suggestion: Which Binary?

On Apr 1, 2006, at 16:37, Tom Lane wrote:

> Just to clarify my point: what'd make sense to me is to describe this
> generic autoconf behavior, and maybe include a small table listing
> some
> of the more-likely-to-be-useful variables. ("configure --help"
> already
> does that, on a very small scale.) It doesn't make much sense to
> me to
> document two specific variables in a way that fails to draw the
> reader's
> attention to the fact that there are many other ones. After all, the
> reader might have some other problem to solve than "use this
> perl". If
> he knows that there might be a way to solve it by setting a variable,
> he's ahead of the game.

Agreed. I've started with this, at least, in ./configure --help

*** configure 06 Mar 2006 09:41:42 -0800 1.485
--- configure 03 Apr 2006 12:41:47 -0700
***************
*** 907,912 ****
--- 907,915 ----
LDFLAGS_SL
DOCBOOKSTYLE
location of DocBook stylesheets
+ PERL location of perl executable
+ PYTHON location of python executable
+ TCL location of tcl executable

Use these variables to override the choices made by `configure' or
to help
it to find libraries and programs with nonstandard names/locations.

But I'm not sure what other variables are supported. I'd *really*
like to know, for example, if there's a READLINE variable, so that I
can point it at GNU readline instead of Mac OS X's crappy readline.
And are there also variables for tclconfig, krb5, pam, ldap, bonjour,
openssl, zlib, and ld? And if so, what do they point at, since some
of these are not execurables (e.g., readline)?

I'll submit a more complete patch, along with a patch to INSTALL,
once I get a more complete list via replies to the above questions
from you kind folks.

Thanks!

David