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#24 No-question config

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nobody
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2007-02-10
2001-09-20
No

Provide option so that config will just run through
without asking any questions other than errata. Not
sure if this is a good idea, but lots of people seem to
really resent hitting return, so ought to be considered.

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  • Sam Halliday

    Sam Halliday - 2003-02-19

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    well unless the ENTIRE make gets upgraded to the GNU
    autoconf stuff, there is no real need to imlement this small
    feature. There are always workarounds for (the likes of me)
    such as

    echo | make

    which will answer the default for all questions. Beware you
    dont type this after you have run make ocnfig once before as
    the default is to not overwrite files and the damn program
    insists on asking over and over the same question!

     
  • R. Clint Whaley

    R. Clint Whaley - 2003-02-20

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    OK, Sam Halliday, I will remember your name: the guy who
    things that moving from config to autoconf would be an
    "upgrade" :)

     
  • Sam Halliday

    Sam Halliday - 2003-02-20

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    :-D ok, maybe that was the mis-under-statement of the year.

    gnu autoconf maybe is not the way to go as this is such a
    big project... but i would certainly like to see a simpler
    system which does away with the xconfig program
    althogether... how about one big top-level Makefile taking a
    system build argument and also allowing for custom tuning
    (on the command line, without editing the actual Makefile).
    There is also some funky parsing going on in the build of
    atlas which stopped me from setting my CC to something like
    "gcc -s" (i was going to do something like this for PIC
    building, but found another way)

    ok, a configure script is maybe a little too overambitious :-D

     
  • R. Clint Whaley

    R. Clint Whaley - 2007-02-10

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    ATLAS's configure now works a lot like gnu configure, so this is now supported (in developer release.

     
  • R. Clint Whaley

    R. Clint Whaley - 2007-02-10
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