Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:24288 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 72373 invoked by uid 1010); 7 Jul 2006 20:25:53 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 72356 invoked from network); 7 Jul 2006 20:25:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 7 Jul 2006 20:25:53 -0000 X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: ceo@l-i-e.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 67.139.134.202 o2.hostbaby.com FreeBSD 4.7-5.2 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.3) (2) Received: from ([67.139.134.202:3090] helo=o2.hostbaby.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.3 r(11751M)) with ESMTP id A9/70-16663-F43CEA44 for ; Fri, 07 Jul 2006 16:25:53 -0400 Received: (qmail 57347 invoked by uid 98); 7 Jul 2006 20:25:50 -0000 Received: from 127.0.0.1 by o2.hostbaby.com (envelope-from , uid 1013) with qmail-scanner-1.25 ( Clear:RC:1(127.0.0.1):. Processed in 0.478424 secs); 07 Jul 2006 20:25:50 -0000 X-Qmail-Scanner-Mail-From: ceo@l-i-e.com via o2.hostbaby.com X-Qmail-Scanner: 1.25 (Clear:RC:1(127.0.0.1):. Processed in 0.478424 secs) Received: from unknown (HELO l-i-e.com) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 7 Jul 2006 20:25:49 -0000 Received: from 67.108.68.36 (SquirrelMail authenticated user ceo@l-i-e.com) by www.l-i-e.com with HTTP; Fri, 7 Jul 2006 15:25:49 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <21819.67.108.68.36.1152303949.squirrel@www.l-i-e.com> In-Reply-To: References: <952E8F04-87DB-4925-8F08-B999DE354D65@skytag.com> Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 15:25:49 -0500 (CDT) To: internals@lists.php.net Reply-To: ceo@l-i-e.com User-Agent: Hostbaby Webmail MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Configure summary From: ceo@l-i-e.com ("Richard Lynch") On Mon, July 3, 2006 5:16 pm, Gwynne wrote: > On Jul 3, 2006, at 6:09 PM, Pierre wrote: >> GD Support Yes >> Bundled >> PNG Yes >> JPEG No >> GIF R/W Yes >> >> PDO Support Yes >> PDO Mysql Yes >> PDO Sqlite Bundled Yes >> ... >> >> Maybe with the version found and used, but it could make the summary >> unreadable :) Only list what actually GOT installed, with version numbers: GD version 2 PNG version 1.x.y JPEG version 2.6.1 Not really any more verbose. > The problem I have with this is that all of that information is > already findable from the configure output. Yes, you have to look for > it, but the idea of a summary is to summarize, not give extensive > details and basically duplicate all the AC_MSG_CHECKING output. Maybe > this is something that would only be provided by my --with- > summary=extended switch? The problem I have with NOT having it is that about a zillion newbies don't realize that there WAS an error when they asked for JPEG support (or whatever) but they don't have JPEG lib installed, or they typed the wrong magic in ./configure, and the configure process blindly moves forward and installs "just fine" and then they end up NOT having JPEG (or whatever) and wonder why there was no error message. Because the error message was BURIED in a zillion lines of configure/make output, which appears incomprehensible to the newbie. Only with many practice runs does one realize that you have to watch the configure output as it flies by to make sure you get what you want. I'd MUCH rather have the default list the modules and versions, and a "quiet" (or "not-verbose" or ...) option for experts that want to skip it. -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm