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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Nifty feature
From: rasmus@lerdorf.com (Rasmus Lerdorf)

Jani Taskinen wrote:
> Rasmus Lerdorf kirjoitti:
>> Hey Jani, nice job on the unknown configure options check.  I saw the
>> commit go through a couple of days ago, and today it got me to clean up
>> an ancient build script I have been using for ages when it gave me this:
>>
>> Notice: Following unknown configure options were used:
>>
>> --with-pdflib=/usr/local
>> --enable-gd-imgstrttf
>> --with-expat=/usr
>> --with-xmlreader
>>
>> Check './configure --help' for available options
>>
>> -Rasmus
>>
> 
> This is exactly why I added it. :)
> 
> Only side-effect is that any 3rd party extension which happens to use
> the AC_ARG_* macros will cause it to report those as "unknown". But
> perhaps it's time to be update.. ;)
> 
> *cough* APC *cough*

But this check isn't in a phpize-generated configure script, so I don't
see how this is a problem.  The number of people who build pecl
extensions in the main source tree can probably be counted on one hand.

-Rasmus