[OpenAFS-devel] suggested additional configure option

[Derrick J Brashear]

On 1 Jul 2001, Sam Hartman wrote:

> >>>>> "Derrick" == Derrick J Brashear <shadow@dementia.org> writes:
> 
>     Derrick> On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Neulinger, Nathan wrote:
>     >> --with-kernel-cc= --with-kernel-cflags=
>     >> 
>     >> and perhaps KCC, KCFLAGS env vars to preset them before
>     >> configure run.
> 
>     Derrick> Send in a patch. That said, given that the model
>     Derrick> configure already uses is you setting CC and CFLAGS, just
>     Derrick> allow KCC and KCFLAGS and not adding yet more switches to
>     Derrick> the soon-to-be-overwhelming configure script is probably
>     Derrick> a better idea.
> 
> 
> Actually, I'd sort of rather AFS not introduce any variables that are
> not part of standard configure without adding switches for them.  If
> you really want to do this you sholud at least document them
> somewhere.

Consider that every feature that can only be enabled at compile time will
already be adding a switch. How many switches can we reasonably expect the
configure; make; make install crowd (who already can't make install, but
that can be fixed, even if it's cheap) to deal with?

-D