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Re: [patch, toplevel] --enable-multilib*S* is an easy typo to recognize...

On Sunday 15 February 2004 5:37 am, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> An early warning with a 10-seconds pause would probably be
> fine.  Bailing out isn't.

I don't think a 10 second delay is particularly helpful. Especially on slower 
machines where configure can take several minutes to run.

I suspect most developers don't inspect the output of configure closely, they 
just scan the last few lines to see if it finished or not. I think catching 
this obvious mistake is a good idea, but it should either "Do what I mean", 
or issue a hard error.

If we're really bothered about sub-configures needing --with-multilibs we 
could always add --disable-dumb-typos :)

Paul
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