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Re: --with-included-ltdl infers --enable-ltdl-convenience


From: Bob Friesenhahn
Subject: Re: --with-included-ltdl infers --enable-ltdl-convenience
Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 19:49:30 -0500 (CDT)

On Tue, 6 May 2008, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
This patch shuts up the warning about --enable-ltdl-convenience
(I suppose the fact that you write --with-included-ltdl in the paragraph
is a typo, as you use the correct one in the Subject:).  However, it

I don't believe that it is a typo since if --with-included-ltdl is supplied, then the configure script also sets --enable-ltdl-convenience to yes and this is inserted into the config.status file as a supplied option so that it is applied later.

The --enable-ltdl-convenience option was in development libtool 2.X for almost four years.

also exposes the flag to the user (via ./configure --help).  I'm not
sure whether that is a good idea.  What do you think?

It is perhaps not a great thing since it is now a secondary (non-dominant) option. In fact, I noticed that --enable-ltdl-convenience is 'yes' even if libltdl is being built as a shared library for formal installation.

Bob
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