Re: svn commit: r1349944 - /subversion/trunk/gen-make.py

On 06/13/2012 07:36 PM, Hyrum K Wright wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 6:10 PM, <rhuijben_at_apache.org> wrote:
>> Author: rhuijben
>> Date: Wed Jun 13 16:10:25 2012
>> New Revision: 1349944
>>
>> URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1349944&view=rev
>> Log:
>> * gen-make.py
>> Make the --with-neon= and --without-neon arguments on gen-make.py optional,
>> just like how ./configure handles those. Windows doesn't use ./configure and
>> this breaks tools that are friendly enough to provide hints.
>
> I don't like this change. ./configure *doesn't* work this way: it
> errors when attempting to provide the now-defunct neon options.

Perhaps Bert meant only that, in general, configure allows you to specify
options that it doesn't itself understand (while printing a warning about
this fact).

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