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Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Fix configure scripts for Debian systems
Stone, Joshua I wrote:
> David Smith wrote:
>> By looking at your patch it seems like the '--with-elfutils' option
>> and your new '--enable-staticdw' option couldn't be specified at the
>> same time. (Note that I'm not sure they *should* coexist.)
>
> This is true -- I was only trying to make it work with the system elfutils
> libraries. The Ubuntu source package has a patch to hardcode the
configure
> script in this way, and I just wanted to make that unnecessary. Plus, now
> I can test git-HEAD on my Ubuntu machines in addition to Fedora.
>
>> Could there be a situation where a user would want to specify both?
>
> I suppose someone might want to do this. If there's a option I can pass
> along to the elfutils configure script for static libdw, then that's easy
> enough, but I don't know what that option would be.
I was thinking (which I didn't explain) that a situation might exist
where a user needed to compile his own elfutils and so grabbed a newer
Ubuntu source package (that had the hardcoded static libdw). At that
point, he'd want to use both '--with-elfutils' and '--enable-staticdw'.
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