[OpenAFS-devel] suggested additional configure option

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Sun, 1 Jul 2001, Mitch Collinsworth wrote:

> 
> On Sun, 1 Jul 2001, Derrick J Brashear wrote:
> 
> > 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?
> 
> Something I've seen done in at least one case where many configure-time
> switches are available is use of a config.site file.  You put all your
> favorite config options in config.site and save it in $prefix.  Next
> time you do a build you start with ./configure --prefix=whatever, and
> configure grabs config.site from $prefix and includes all the options
> specified there.

something analogous to that is workable; i don't have any particular
problem with it as long as it's not a requirement. any other comments on
this?

-D