[cairo] Re: Flag for FP-challenged platforms

Dominic Lachowicz domlachowicz at gmail.com
Wed Nov 29 16:34:58 PST 2006


> Oh, yuck, now I'll complain. ;-)
>
> I was fine to let --avoid-floating-point go by without comment but
> --enable-avoid-floating-point is a pretty awkward phrase, (sounds to
> me like "turning on the turn-it-off switch" ).

It should be pretty trivial to change this to an
AC_ARG_ENABLE(floating-point, ...) where the default value is 'yes' or
'auto', which means 'yes'. Then, someone who doesn't want it can do:

--disable-floating-point

And all's well with the world.

Best,
Dom
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