[OpenAFS-devel] suggested additional configure option

Russ Allbery rra@stanford.edu
03 Jul 2001 12:31:28 -0700


Derrick J Brashear <shadow@dementia.org> writes:

> 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?

Lots.  INN has 30-odd, and I've compiled software that has double that.
As long as you mention the most important ones in the INSTALL file, people
cope surprisingly well.

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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>