[MPlayer-cvslog] CVS: main configure,1.1029,1.1030

[The Wanderer]

Rich Felker wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 10:44:48AM +0200, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>>> Hehe, at last ...
>> 
>> You misunderstood, I am annoyed by users that do not read the
>> manuals, and with this message I have no reason to hide my
>> annoyance to the next person that comes around and wildly uses
>> --enable.
> 
> I have an idea.. let's have configure print a huge warning message
> "DO NOT SEND BUG REPORTS" if any enable options are used. Sound
> reasonable?

Sounds like overkill, actually, but that doesn't mean something along
those lines wouldn't be a good idea.

Let's take a step back and examine this more closely. Is there any
circumstance under which the non-autodetected --enable options provide
any actual functionality - that is, any case in which autodetection
would fail but compilation would succeed regardless? If not, then yes,
the suggestion above sounds good. If so, then I think something less
severe would be better.

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