Re: [Plplot-devel] Configuration defaults

[Maurice L. <mj...@ga...>]

Alan W. Irwin writes:
 > Could we have some discussion about what the configuration defaults should be?
 > 
 > I suspect most of the following are completely ignored at the moment with some
 > superseded by variables set up by autotools.  Shouldn't the ignored ones
 > be completely removed from configure.ac (including the configuration
 > printout at the end which prints them out even though they are
 > meaningless)?
 > 
 > with_debug=no
 > with_opt=yes
 > with_profile=no
 > with_shlib=yes
 > with_warn=no
 > with_dbmalloc=no
 > with_fseek=no
 > with_pkgdir=
 > 
 > Below are some additional options along with how I feel they should be
 > changed (or not).  I lean toward a default of with_double=yes, but if a
 > ...
 > with_double=no				yes?
 > with_gcc=no				?
 > with_freetype=no			yes?
 > enable_dyndrivers=no			yes
 > enable_java=no				no?
 > enable_octave=no			yes
 > enable_gnome=no				no
 > enable_ntk=no				yes?
 > 
 > Are there any other defaults that should be changed?

These are fine with me personally, yes even with_double.  Although in that
case you may trip up some people who are used to the old behavior.

with_debug
with_opt
with_profile
with_warn

Should all stay, as I will get to support them again one of these days.
Probably won't be until April.  

with_shlib should probably also stay if it is currently supported -- does
anyone know?

with_dbmalloc can go AFAIAC.  These days we have access to better tools
(e.g. valgrind) and it has been some years since I've used a debugging
malloc.

BTW I will soon (?) add a few more: with_readline and with_libtecla, both for
supporting command line editing in the pltcl shell.

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Maurice LeBrun    mj...@ga...
Research Organization for Information Science and Technology of Japan (RIST)