Re: Heavy weight deps (was y scaling error)

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On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 21:03:04 +0100, Hans-Bernhard Bröker  
<HBB...@t-...> wrote:

> 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).
>

So no-one is likely to remember the whole list, but accepting we can  
remember a few we need to include/exclude it would be nice not add to the  
burden with apparently arbitary on/off option names. Is there a feature  
here we are missing the point of?

Is there a good reason they are not synonymous?

thx.



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