Re: [Plplot-devel] Configuration defaults

[Alan W. I. <ir...@be...>]

On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Maurice LeBrun wrote:

> 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.

OK.  I left with-double=no.

However, in my recent commit I changed with_freetype, enable_dyndrivers,
enable_octave, and enable_ntk to yes.

I also replaced the non-working has_x11 logic with the have_x logic that is
implemented by the AC_PATH_XTRA.  I tested that new logic by trying the
standard configure option --without-x which for the first time now does the
right thing (no tk, no xwin).  I assume from this good test, that if anybody
ever tries to configure on a system without X, that the right thing will be
done in that case as well, but I don't have access to such a system to test
this.

>
> 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.

OK.

>
> 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.

OK. I removed dbmalloc.

I also removed with_fseek because I couldn't find a trace of any use of it.

I left with_pkgdir= alone because apparently it is a part of the tcl
configuration logic.  (I hope that logic gets cleaned up before 5.2.1, but
that is a subject for another day.)

That still leaves the original question about with_gcc.  I think it is
completely ignored at the moment so it should probably just be dropped
unless somebody wants to maintain it.

> [Out of order...]
> with_shlib should probably also stay if it is currently supported -- does
> anyone know?

I believe the standard --enable-shared completely replaces with_shlib. Thus,
I don't think we should maintain a parallel with_shlib. If everyone agrees,
I will make the appropriate changes in configure.ac and sysloc.in to replace
the with_shlib logic with the corresponding enable-shared logic.

Does anyone else have additional configure defaults they want to change?

Alan

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