Re: gEDA-user: needing --disable-update-mime-database

[Peter TB Brett <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 16 May 2008 13:55, Dan McMahill wrote:

> Here is my fear with the autodetection.  Suppose you have the desktop
> integration tools, but for whatever reason configure didn't find them.
> Maybe you didn't have your path set right.  Or maybe someone is creating
> a 3rd party package and forgot to list the integration stuff as a
> dependency.  Now it configures and builds and installs with no warning
> (unless you read through the very long build log) that it didn't find
> something and hence won't run the database update.  Thats why I'd rather
> have the user explicitly acknowledge that something wasn't found.  I
> think this is probably a bigger deal with libraries where it is probably
> more common for someone to have a library installed in a different spot
> and need to give LDFLAGS= arguments.  This too is a case where I'd
> rather see configure say "hey, I didn't find libfoo.  If this is ok,
> build with --disable-libfoo but you will miss out on feature xyz"
> instead of silently dropping feature xyz.
>

I'm confused. Isn't this "fail and suggest extra configure flags" what the OP 
was complaining about...?


                           Peter


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