Re: checking arguments of type --with- and --enable- passed to configure

[Eric Blake]

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According to Sherwood, P (Paul) on 11/16/2007 6:02 AM:
> I would like to know if there is a recommended way of checking
> if any incorrect --with or --enable arguments have been given,
> it is quite easy to mis-spell or to use --with when --enable 
> was needed.

Check the archives.  This question was recently asked and answered:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2007-10/msg00106.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2007-10/msg00128.html

> I used to have a block of code to do this explicity checking the
> contents of $* but since autoconf 2.60 $* contains the following:
>  /usr/local/share/config.site /usr/local/etc/config.site

That is a bug in 2.60-2.61 that has already been fixed for 2.62.
http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=autoconf.git;a=commitdiff;h=673d773

The primary reason that 2.62 hasn't been released yet is that we have
swapped to GPLv3+, but do not have FSF-approved wording for how to
preserve the exception clause that earlier versions used that let you
compile non-GPL projects with autoconf without licensing problems.

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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