Re: Heavy weight deps (was y scaling error)

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Ethan A Merritt wrote:
> On Tuesday 06 November 2007 21:53, Ethan A Merritt wrote:
>> For instance, doing
>>   ./configure --disable-wxwidgets --disable-cairo
>> nevertheless detects and links against the cairo and pango libraries, even
>> though it doesn't actually build the wxt or cairo terminals.
> 
> False alarm.  It should have been
>     ./configure --disable-wxwidgets --without-cairo
> 
> It's a pity that enable/disable and with/without aren't treated
> as synonyms.  How is anyone supposed to remember which one goes
> with which option?

Not at all.  Just like nobody is supposed to remember the list of 
available --enable/--disable/--with{,out} options.  That's what 
./configure --help is for (./configure --help=short if you already know 
the generic configure options).