| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: ./configure argument checking |
| Date: | 2006-10-13 15:25:28 |
| Message-ID: | 20061013152528.GD18553@alvh.no-ip.org |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> writes:
> > I would like a pedantic mode, but the method of activation is a tricky
> > issue. You want it to be 'on' for normal users but 'off' for automatic
> > build scripts.
>
> A quiet mode would work better, because it could be on by default for
> both cases. However, people may be too used to expecting to see chatter
> from configure scripts --- anyone who's used a few before would probably
> think the script was hung :-(
Maybe have it emit single chars instead of lines for each check? That
way it looks like something's going on. Not sure how difficult that is
with autoconf.
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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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