Re: gnome-libs and --disable-debug in the configure script

[Robert Bihlmeyer <robbe orcus priv at>]

Hi,

>>>>> On Sun, 24 Jan 1999 23:56:43 -0500 (EST)
>>>>> Gleef <gleef@capital.net> said:

 Gleef> On Sun, 24 Jan 1999, Damo wrote:

 >> the subject is pretty much most of my message. when i do
 >> ./configure --disable-debug (or autogen.sh --disable-debug to be
 >> pedantic), instead of less debug messages (i dont think i got any
 >> before), i get more! all this stuff about various things clicked
 >> and activates. basically a much more verbose debug output.

FYI: debugging is off by default, you won't get less debug messages by 
turning it off a second time. I'd guess that those messages you're
seeing come from gtk+, not gnome-libs.

 Gleef> That's one of the more annoying quirks of autoconf. Unless you
 Gleef> go through a lot of effort setting up the configure.in script,
 Gleef> autoconf will recognize both --enable-<feature> and
 Gleef> --disable-<feature> as both doing the same thing, toggling
 Gleef> <feature> from the default behavior. It leaves it up to the
 Gleef> configure script writer to set a default and list the correct
 Gleef> form of the option, and up to the person running configure to
 Gleef> follow directions :-).

Well, normally you just set another variable to $enableval. For
--enable-debug, the following mini-patch should help:


diff -u gnome-libs/configure.in~ gnome-libs/configure.in
--- gnome-libs/configure.in~	Mon Jan 25 11:24:16 1999
+++ gnome-libs/configure.in	Mon Jan 25 11:24:16 1999
@@ -50,7 +50,8 @@
 dnl Utility conditional
 AM_CONDITIONAL(FALSE, test x = y)
 
-AC_ARG_ENABLE(debug, [  --enable-debug turn on debugging [default=no]],AC_DEFINE(GNOME_ENABLE_DEBUG),)
+AC_ARG_ENABLE(debug, [  --enable-debug turn on debugging [default=no]],
+if test $enableval = yes; then AC_DEFINE(GNOME_ENABLE_DEBUG); fi,)
 
 AC_SUBST(CFLAGS)
 AC_SUBST(CPPFLAGS)

 Gleef> Autoconf is maintained by the Free Software Foundation, I'm
 Gleef> sure they'd love patches if you can give it saner behavior,
 Gleef> without wrecking anything.

Adding an ACTION-IF-DISABLED clause to `AC_ARG_ENABLE' seems more
hassle than it is worth.

	Robbe

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