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Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2006 16:48:05 -0400
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Configure summary
From: gwynne@skytag.com (Gwynne)

On Jul 3, 2006, at 3:27 PM, Richard Lynch wrote:
>> I was poking around at the TODO and I saw this:
>>
>>      * make configure print out a summary when it's done (like  
>> XEmacs)
>>
>> I'm working on a patch to bring in this functionality, out of sheer
>> "I need to learn more about autoconf and I want to contribute to  
>> PHP"-
>> ness :). Does anyone have any thoughts on what might go into such a
>> summary? So far, I have install prefix, SAPI, debug on/off, things of
>> that simple nature. Also, any thoughts on whether the summary should
>> be printed from configure itself or config.status?
> My personal heretical naive opinion is that a configure summary should
> print out pretty much the same thing I would get if I did phpinfo() in
> the make that resulted from this build, and the more similar to that
> you can get, the better.
>
> Since 'make' now builds multiple SAPIs at once (e.g. apxs + CLI + CGI)
> that part should be different, though.

phpinfo() is rather... long... for a configure output, but the  
information I'm already providing in my initial revision of this  
patch pretty much covers the first section of it anyway.

-- Gwynne, Daughter of the Code
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