Subject: Re: [htdig3-dev] auto config from Apache httpd.conf
From: Geoff Hutchison (ghutchis@wso.williams.edu)
Date: Fri Dec 03 1999 - 17:39:33 PST
At 6:24 PM -0500 12/3/99, Tom Metro wrote:
>If I remember correctly, Ht://Dig's configure doesn't actually ask the
>user any questions - it just runs through its automated tests, and the
>stuff extracted from an httpd.conf isn't really needed at build time,
>so maybe what's needed is a post-build config tool.
This could work.
>I'm sure this can be accomplished with GNU configure, but I'm not
>familiar enough with it to know how.
The best solution is to write a small shell script that passes the
appropriate options to configure for you. The advantage is that you
can have it not only run ./configure --option1... but also make, make
check, make install and anything else you might like.
Why did we do away with the CONFIG file? It's not as powerful as
configure options. In 3.2, for example, you can choose static or
shared libraries, enable a "make check" phase and a variety of other
options. Plus, many people are familiar with --bindir=, --prefix=,
--exec-prefix=, but these didn't quite match the directory choices in
the CONFIG file.
-Geoff
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