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Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 16:04:02 -0400
To: PHP Developers Mailing List <internals@lists.php.net>
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Nifty feature
From: gwynne@wanderingknights.org (Gwynne Raskind)

On Jul 17, 2007, at 3:44 PM, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
>>> 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
>> 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.

*raises hand* I do... all the time. *crawls back under her rock*

-- Gwynne, Daughter of the Code
"This whole world is an asylum for the incurable."