[Users] Configure options - Was: Missiing spelling

Ralf Mardorf info.mardorf at rocketmail.com
Sun Jun 28 10:59:01 CEST 2015


On Sun, 28 Jun 2015 10:48:11 +0200, Holger Berndt wrote:
>Hallo Ralf,
>
>On Di, 23.06.2015 13:46, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>
>>>> However, Michael already pointed out --enable-enchant isn't needed,
>>>> it's enabled automatically. Are any of the following options
>>>> also unneeded:
>>>
>>>They are unneeded if you don't need them. I'm not entirely sure what
>>>you are trying to achieve here.
>>
>>I want to know, what configure options I need to add, if I want to
>>enable/disable those options. Michael claimed that it's not needed to
>>add --enable-enchant to enable it [2]. So is it needed to add any of
>>the other options [1] to configure, to enable/disable them, assumed
>>all build dependencies are installed, those for the enabled and
>>disabled options.
>
>Some --enable... options (mainly those for plugins) change semantics of
>the configure step. If the dependency is not fulfilled, then
>- if no --enable-option is given: Print a warning and build without it
>- if --enable-option is given: Error out
>
>So the seemingly unneeded options can serve the purpose to make sure
>that some feature is actually included in the build, if the build
>succeeds.

Thank you



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