[racket-dev] --enable-macprefix gone?

From: Matthew Flatt (mflatt at cs.utah.edu)
Date: Wed Oct 20 09:08:48 EDT 2010

At Wed, 20 Oct 2010 00:03:33 -0400, Eli Barzilay wrote:
> About a minute ago, David Van Horn wrote:
> > On 10/19/10 10:03 PM, Eli Barzilay wrote:
> > > 9 hours ago, David Van Horn wrote:
> > >> Has the --enable-macprefix option been removed from the configure
> > >> script?  When I configure, I get:
> > >>
> > >>      configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --enable-macprefix
> > >>
> > >> If so, the src/README file should be updated to reflect the change.
> > >
> > > You should have this code in the "configure" script:
> > 
> > Yep -- the code's there, and if I omit the option the script gives
> > an error saying it's needed in order to use --prefix.  So why do I
> > see an unrecognized option warning when I provide
> > --enable-macprefix?
> 
> All options are passed to sub-configure script calls -- you'll see
> similar warnings with other flags.  I don't know if there's a way to
> disable passing specific arguments this way.

None that I've figured out.

In other words, ignore that warning. It's a sub-configure script
complaining that it doesn't recognize a flag intended for the main
configure script.




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