Re: fixing the c++/f77 circular dependency

[Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>]

Doug Evans <dje@cygnus.com> writes:

|>    From: Alexandre Oliva <oliva@dcc.unicamp.br>
|>    Date: 21 Aug 1997 01:27:55 -0300

|>    > You could add a --enable-lang=foo [or some such] option,
|>    > so while LANGUAGES=x is gone, the ability to only build a few
|>    > is not.

|>    I'd rather have all languages enabled by default (as it is now), and
|>    configuring --without-g77, --without-g++ (is this a valid identifier,
|>    by the way?), etc would selectively disable them.  I could provide a
|>    patch for that, if you agree with it.

|> When I proposed and wrote a patch for --{with,without}-lang [over two
|> years ago] it was suggested that --{enable,disable} was more appropriate.

According to the autoconf manual --with[out]-PACKAGE should be used for
something optional that is external to the source package (eg,
--with-gnu-ld, --with-debugging-malloc).  --{enable,disable}-FEATURE is
for controling the inclusion of something which is part of the source
package, but optional (eg, --enable-haifa, --enable-maintainer-mode).

-- 
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