fix 2.64 fopen glitch, disable option checking

Paolo Bonzini bonzini@gnu.org
Mon Aug 17 22:52:00 GMT 2009


> With 2.64 and up, the AC_DISABLE_OPTION_CHECKING avoids warnings about
>  --enable-*, --disable-*, --with-* and --without-*
> switches passed in by the user and unknown to the toplevel configure
> script.  Note that with this patch, subdirectory configure scripts may
> still warn about unknown switches.  We could easily avoid that across
> the whole tree by letting just the toplevel pass
> --disable-option-checking to each sub configure script invoked, e.g.,
> by adding it to $baseargs in configure.ac.  Do you want that?  If yes,
> OK to just squash it in with this patch?  (2.59 scripts will ignore
> the argument.)

Yes and yes.

> See these threads for the corresponding bug reports and discussions:
> <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.autoconf.bugs/6839>
> <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.autoconf.patches/6656>
> 
> Wrt. also overriding the things for the other languages, I'm not sure
> that's ever necessary, but it can't hurt to play safe here.
> 
> OK to commit to GCC and src right away?

Ok.

Paolo



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