Re: characters allowed in --enable-*/--with-*

2010-08-04 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Bruno, * Bruno Haible wrote on Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 11:24:19PM CEST: > If I can't convince you, then I would propose to be silent about this > question in the GNU standards for the moment, This is not an option IMVHO, because it has the very distinct disadvantage that you cannot build packa

Re: characters allowed in --enable-*/--with-*

2010-08-04 Thread Karl Berry
I was merely musing on my experiences in that initial reply, not making final proclamations or anything. Sorry if I gave that impression. I realize there are advantages to allowing +, which you have ably enumerated :). I'm ok with proposing to rms that + be allowed, along with: -_.A-Za-z I wasn

Re: characters allowed in --enable-*/--with-*

2010-08-04 Thread Bruno Haible
Hello Karl, > > Autoconf 2.66 added '+' to the set of allowed characters in --enable-* > > Why? There were three reasons behind my proposal on bug-autoconf on 2010-03-13: 1) For --enable/--disable: So that programs can use --enable-c++, which is easier for the user to remember than ei

Re: characters allowed in --enable-*/--with-*

2010-08-04 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
[ adding bug-gnulib ] * Karl Berry wrote on Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 01:11:47AM CEST: > So gnulib could have --enable-c++. > > I guess I missed some discussion on bug-gnulib. Overall, "cplusplus" > seems like it would have been simpler/more customary. (That ++ causes > endless hassle everywhere