Re: Configure summary

On Jul 3, 2006, at 3:27 PM, Richard Lynch wrote:

I was poking around at the TODO and I saw this:

     * make configure print out a summary when it's done (like XEmacs)

I'm working on a patch to bring in this functionality, out of sheer "I need to learn more about autoconf and I want to contribute to PHP"- ness :). Does anyone have any thoughts on what might go into such a summary? So far, I have install prefix, SAPI, debug on/off, things of that simple nature. Also, any thoughts on whether the summary should be printed from configure itself or config.status?

My personal heretical naive opinion is that a configure summary should print out pretty much the same thing I would get if I did phpinfo() in the make that resulted from this build, and the more similar to that you can get, the better. Since 'make' now builds multiple SAPIs at once (e.g. apxs + CLI + CGI) that part should be different, though.

phpinfo() is rather... long... for a configure output, but the information I'm already providing in my initial revision of this patch pretty much covers the first section of it anyway. -- Gwynne, Daughter of the Code "This whole world is an asylum for the incurable."