Re: [PATCH] Remember configure's options for later recall

[Phil Edwards <pedwards at disaster dot jaj dot com>]

On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 08:55:57PM -0700, Richard Henderson wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 05:55:52PM -0400, Phil Edwards wrote:
> > So that when users come to us with some freaky weird problem, we have an
> > easier way of answering the question, "Did J. Random User configure GCC
> > with --with-foo or with --disable-bar?  Or maybe with some rarely-tested
> > unusual combination?  Maybe J.R.U. didn't have anything to do with the
> > GCC installation; maybe the sysadmin at that site is off his rocker," etc.
> > 
> > There are a lot of configure --with's and --enable's for v3 that interact
> > in really "interesting" ways, and I mean "interesting" in the sense of
> > the old Chinese curse.  (And not just for v3, I'm sure.)
> 
> Why don't you have it printed out by gcc -v, then?

Ironic; I thought about that, too, but figured that messing with the
command-line options' effects would be rejected on sight.

And briefly thought about "one -v does what it does, two -v's gives the
config options," but that would make -v the only non-idempotent option.
Bad idea.

Sure, if you think using -v would be a better method, I'm up for that.


Phil

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