Re: disabling all external programs in comedilib

Dave,

 >>Are there any objections to commit this change to comedilib? Please try
 >>it out.
 >
 >
 > There should probably be a --disable for each binding.
Swig and the docbook bindings can't be disabled. Should I add separate 
disables for all of them?


 >>there have been quite often problems compiling comedilib because of
 >>outdated or buggy external programs like swig, python, etc. (Bjorn is
 >>the most recent "victim" ;-).
 >
 >
 > This is a separate issue.
How to solve that? A couple of our comedi users are frustrated because 
of buggy external programs/distros/etc. And in fact they don't need them 
very often. Nothing against swig of python but a general switch is just 
very handy. No matter how many external programs are needed I could just 
send them an e-mail and say "Just try ./configure --disable-all-bindings".

Anyway: can we at least agree that I add --disables for all different 
modules? However, I would appreciate a global switch. Just for debugging 
purposes.

/Bernd


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David Schleef wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 10:40:02PM +0100, Bernd Porr wrote:
> 
>>there have been quite often problems compiling comedilib because of 
>>outdated or buggy external programs like swig, python, etc. (Bjorn is 
>>the most recent "victim" ;-).
> 
> 
> This is a separate issue.
> 
> 
>>The other thing is that on embedded systems these "add ons" are usually 
>>not needed. A very basic comedilib is sufficient.
> 
> 
> In this case, the developer will want to delete a bunch of files
> after 'make install' anyway, so how is this relevant?
> 
> 
>>Are there any objections to commit this change to comedilib? Please try 
>>it out.
> 
> 
> There should probably be a --disable for each binding.
> 
> 
> 
> dave...
> 
>

Received on 2004-09-22Z07:48:44