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From: | Paul Eggert |
Subject: | Re: Merging bignum to master |
Date: | Sun, 12 Aug 2018 16:53:07 -0700 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 |
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
I think other packages use --enable-mini-gmp, so maybe we should name the option the same, for consistency.
The GNU coding standards say that --enable is supposed to be for adding user-level facilities, which this is not: the user-level behavior does not change. Conversely, the coding standards say that --with is appropriate for choosing to use a library like GMP. So --with-SOMETHING seems more appropriate here than --enable-SOMETHING.
That being said, the distinction between --with-FOO and --enable-FOO has long been a confusing area of the GNU coding standards -- as witnessed by the other packages you're thinking about.
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