Re: ./configure errors not reported
| From: | Sascha Schumann | Date: | Mon, 11 Dec 2000 06:58:32 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: ./configure errors not reported | ||
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On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Olivier Cahagne wrote:
> ./configure --enable-mysql
>
> won't output any error saying that this option doesn't exist, shouldn't
> it be easy to detect an error when someone mistyped a ./configure
> parameter ?
That would presume that the top-level autoconf knows about
all possible options. That is impossible to do in the
autoconf system, which allows to configure sub-packages
recursively.
- Sascha