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Re: Setup proposal: "Maintainer Features" #define and AC_ARG_ENABLE


On Wed, 2002-12-25 at 10:45, Robert Collins wrote:


> Secondly, maintainer only features should not be visible as configure
> arguments - add them to your CXXFLAGS command line parameter, or tweak
> Makefile.am. The reason for this is that users *will* turn on configure
> parameters in the assumption that they are for users. I've seen this
> happen before, with disasterous consequences :[.

I do like the idea of turning all such features into command line
arguments though. Tick in that box.

Rob
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