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Re: [PATCH] Add a custom ./configure script

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Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date
Jul 5, 2006, 16:46 UTC
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On 7/4/06, Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> wrote:
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> >
> > If you named it for example configure.sh, then autoconf generated version,
> > and your by hand created version could coexist.
>
> I'm not opposed to it per se, but I'm just not sure if it makes any
> sense to support them both in parallel, since then you have parallel
> infrastructure doing the exactly same thing, or worse yet - performing
> a subtly different set of tests. The benefit is unclear to me.

The benefit is on user side: he'll take what works for him, without waiting for you or Jakub to fix it for him.

> Another thing is that it's named *everywhere* ./configure and if I use a
> different name now then it will be hard to rename.
but it not the same configure as "everywhere". It's your very own script.
That said, I like your script better than the autoconf thing.
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  1. Add a custom ./configure scriptPetr Baudis, Jul 4, 2006
  2. Jakub NarebskiJul 4, 2006
  3. Petr BaudisJul 4, 2006
  4. Alex RiesenJul 5, 2006

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