Re: [Plplot-devel] Configuration defaults

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

On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, [iso-8859-1] Jo=E3o Cardoso wrote:

> On Friday 28 February 2003 19:51, Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> | 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=3Dno.
>
> I don't think that Maurice really meant to keep with-double=3Dno.

Yes, from his words above he was clearly willing to go along.  But the only
comment I heard at the point when I made the changes this morning was his
slightly negative one so I decided to be conservative with the change.

However, now that you think double is a better default I am willing to go
along with that.  If nobody else objects in the next few hours I will
just go ahead and make the change.

> | 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.
>
> Yes, I also think so. gcc must be the default. For other situations
> CC=3Dxx ./configure should do the trick.

OK.  Unless I hear other objections in the next few hours, I will remove
with_gcc.


>
> |
> | > [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.
>
> Isn't it the same thing?

No.  There is configure logic in sysloc.in that now depends on with_shlib,
but that option is set by the user independently of --enable-shared.  So
currently it is a mess.

I think the best way to deal with this is to completely remove with_shlib
and change over to enable_shared logic in sysloc.in.  If nobody objects
to this change I will do it in the next few hours.

Alan
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