Re: trouble compiling the CVS version

On Sat, 19 Aug 2000, Stig Venaas wrote: >On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 09:50:59PM +0300, Jani Taskinen wrote: >> And for me it fails at compiling gd-library. Since I didn't use >> --withoud-gd. And I don't have gd installed in the default location. >> >> By the way, why is gd enabled by default? IMO it shouldn't be.. > >Agree. I'm not sure if I like MySQL to be enabled by default either. >I like to turn on what I need by hand since I want a minimal build >(to disable everything I don't need is harder). I guess enabled by >default makes it easier for some though. IMO there shouldn't be ANY extensions enabled by default. If someone wants to use some extension (extension = something that extends the core system) they usually (?) know whether or not it is installed in their systems. And gd-library is just one extension amongst others, isn't it? There are also numerous bug reports which are caused by having mysql enabled by default and not having path (for example) which causes conflicts with other Apache modules which use mysql. I would like to have an reasonable explanation why there are these two extensions (mysql & gd) enabled by default? --Jani