Subject: Re: New Autoconf tarball - 0.0.5
From: Sam TH (sam@uchicago.edu)
Date: Fri Apr 13 2001 - 10:26:04 CDT
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 08:10:39AM -0700, Aaron Lehmann wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 07:07:17AM -0500, Sam TH wrote:
> > Same place, www.abisource.com/~sam/abi-auto.tar.gz
> >
> > Things new from 0.0.4:
> >
> > - --enable-bidi - not actually tested, but works in theory
> > - --enable-pspell changed to --with-pspell
> > - --with-libxml2 - also totally untested
>
> Hi,
>
> I've always wondered what the naming conventions were with --with
> options vs. --enable options. What is the difference between those?
According to the docs, --enable is to enable a feature (like, say
GNOME support :-P ), whereas --with is to use a program that doesn't
change anything.
For example, in gcc, they have --enable-nls[1] for national language
support, I think, and --with-gnu-ld, for using the GNU linker.
It doesn't matter at all, and the syntax of the autoconf macros are
identical.
[1] actually, that's the default, and they have --disable-nls
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