Re: gEDA-user: Meaning of --with-x and --without-gui for pcb

[Stuart Brorson <sdb@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I've been watching this thread for a few days.  Today it occurred to
me that the --with-x flag is likely autogenerated by automake/autoconf,
and is therefore just an obsolete artifact.

Most gEDA projects use the autotools to create "configure" from
configure.ac.  Very few people now write their own configure scripts.

Inside configure.ac the developer puts a bunch of
macros to check various things on the target system.  Then, running
autoconf expands the macros to create the "configure" file used by the
end-user to build the software.

I'd bet dollars to doughnuts that some of the macros getting expanded
invoke boilerplate configure options, includuing "--with-x", which may
have been an important flag years ago for some unix programs.
Nowadays, it's obsolete.  I just looked inside the configure file
for gerbv, and internally the variable corresponding to this flag is
set to "yes" by default.

If anything, I'd suggest that the presence of this flag represents a
minor, cosmetic bug which one could file against the GNU autotools.

Just my guess,

Stuart




On Sun, 1 Mar 2009, Stefan Salewski wrote:

> On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 14:52 +0100, Stefan Salewski wrote:
>> I can not really understand the ./configure option
>>
>> --with-x                use the X Window System
>>
>> which is available for libgeda and gschem.
>> Both require GTK+ 2.4.x, so X Window System should be used anyways.
>> Seems that --with-x is not used by default, but current Gentoo ebuild
>> script specifies it.
>>
>> Any idea for what it may be useful?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Stefan Salewski
>
>> On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 17:08 +0300, Ineiev wrote:
>>> Probably to specify --with-x=/home/randomuser/personal-x-install-dir
>
> I am not sure that this is correct...
>
> Same question for PCB 20081128.
>
> ./configure shows
>
> --with-x                use the X Window System
>
> but I can not find out what it means.
> Current Gentoo ebuild script uses a --without-x argument to ./configure
> when building for batch/server application.
>
> But this argument seems to be obsolete now -- can not find it with grep.
>
> And:
>
> stefan@AMD64-X2 ~/pcb-20081128 $ ./configure --help | grep without-gui
> stefan@AMD64-X2 ~/pcb-20081128 $ cat INSTALL | grep without-gui
>       --without-gui       = specifies that no GUI will be built.  This
>
> So --without-gui in mentioned in INSTALL but not recognized by
> configure?
>
> So how can we build without GUI for server?
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Stefan Salewski
>
> OK, some people may wonder why I ask:
> I try to support a package maintainer -- he is busy and is not active
> using gEDA-tools.
>
>
>
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