Re: [RFC] AM_ARG_ENABLE

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Paolo,

* Paolo Bonzini wrote on Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 07:10:39PM CEST:
> While looking around at the most common shell idioms in otherwise
> "simple" configure.ac files, I found a very common one:
> 
> AC_ARG_ENABLE([something], [--enable-something    xyz],,
>    [enable_something=no])
> AM_CONDITIONAL([SOMETHING, [test "$enable_something" != no])
> 
> What would you think about one or two wrapper macros in Automake
> that would simplify the above to
> 
> AM_ARG_ENABLE([something], [xyz])   # if default is NO
> AM_ARG_DISABLE([something], [xyz])  # if default is YES
> 
> ?

Sounds like a good idea.

Thanks,
Ralf