Re: [Fwd: libtool AC_ARG_WITH and autoconf 2.59]

[Stepan Kasal]

Hello,

On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 08:17:40PM -0700, Howard Chu wrote:
> reading the autoconf 2.59 document to see if there's a macro to control
> this behavior,

no there is no documented way to change this.  I think I could relatively
easily design a hack which would merge the two groups again, but there
would be no guarantee that the hack won't break with future version.

> but in the meantime one fix would be to change libtool's
> AC_ARG_WITH invocations into AC_ARG_ENABLE instead.

Well, such a change would affect the users, if they are accustomed to
the current option.

> Since the autoconf
> behavior appears to reserve AC_ARG_WITH solely for specifying external
> packages, instead of for specifying options, this would seem to be the
> correct fix. Any thoughts?

Some of your --with option specify an external software, I think, like
--with-gnu-ld.  But the subdirs and tags should indeed be specified by
--enable-subdirs and --enable-tags, IMHO.

Have a nice day,
        Stepan