Re: How do we detect release mode in autoconf or in configure script?

On 20.11.2020 01:45, Yasuhito FUTATSUKI wrote:
> Hi,
>
> As I wrote in another thread, Subversion's configure script in release
> mode still has an issue that it detects SWIG executable which is never
> used in release mode.

Does this cause any problems for the build? As far as I know, it doesn't.

> To resolve this issue, it is need to detect release mode in autoconf
> macro or in generated configure script. However I can't find the ways
> already used in autoconf input files.
>
> What is the recommended way to do it?

There is no such thing as "release mode". We should probably make
--without-swig the default, and make --with-swig (without parameters) do
whatever we do by default today. Developers can fix their build scripts
if necessary.

-- Brane
Received on 2020-11-20 02:22:35 CET