Hello Hal Thanks for your help, and my apologies, for I could answer only today ....
On Oct 9, 2002, 20:27 (-0400) Hal Burgiss wrote: > On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 10:47:34PM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > On Oct 9, 2002, 22:28 (+0200) Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > > > > ./configure --help > > > to get a list of options, and I see there, amongst others: > > > > > > --enable-FEATURE[=ARG] include FEATURE [ARG=yes] > > > > > > but there's no explanation for the actually available features, I have to correct myself: there is an explanation for some features, but not for one I was finding in the gnupg.spec file (excerpt following): -------------------- %build if test -n "$LINGUAS"; then unset LINGUAS fi CFLAGS="$RPM_OPT_FLAGS" ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-shared make --------------------- I want to understand the "--enable-shared" option, so I did "./configure --help" in the source directory of gnupg-1.2.0 ... But I'd guess this option is something that is not special to gnupg but rather more a general compiler option for any package ... So I was looking in "man gcc", too, but this also didn't help me much ... > > [...] > > So the first two are generated, hardwired examples of how to use > --enable/--disable. Those listed below that are some of the available > features that can be disabled/enabled at compile time for this > particular source. You can look at the relevant configure.in script to > see how this works. ... they have a configure.ac in the gnupg tarball there ... seems to be similar (as to the script language they use) to the configure.in script you mentioned .. Regards Wolfgang > > -- Key on: http://home.t-online.de/home/520050060325-0001/ Key fingerprint = 5FFA E2D1 6DB5 C023 0C5F 3FA7 4E08 5F9F 1560 0BA8 Home Page: www.geocities.com/wolfgangpfeiffer/ -- END TRANSMISSION -- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
