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Re: distcheck with specific configuration
- From: "Lars J. Aas" <larsa at sim dot no>
- To: Dean Povey <povey at dstc dot qut dot edu dot au>
- Cc: Merijn de Jonge <M dot de dot Jonge at cwi dot nl>, automake at gnu dot org
- Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 12:37:12 +0100
- Subject: Re: distcheck with specific configuration
- List-id: Discussion list for automake <automake.gnu.org>
- References: <M.de.Jonge@cwi.nl> <3BFCD12E.FF73F545@cwi.nl> <200111222226.fAMMQ9m00505@thunder.dstc.qut.edu.au>
On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 08:26:08AM +1000, Dean Povey wrote:
:
: >Until now it seems not possible to run gmake distcheck with additional
: >configuration switches. This requires that packages are completely
: >self-contained, or that they can locate required external packages during
: >configure. However, this is not always desirable or even possible. Furthermore
: ,
: >sometimes one wants to perform a distcheck with extra compile time configurati
: on
: >(to turn on debug information for example, or to enable/disable conditional
: >parts of a system).
: >
: >For this reason it would be nice to be able to control the configuration durin
: g
: >gmake distcheck.
:
: <snip>
:
: Can I add a big me too for this feature? I think this is a no-brainer and
: I just ran across wanting to add this very recently.
I've also wanted to be able to specify options for the distcheck configure
run for a long time...
Lars J