[Libreoffice] [PATCH] Cleaning and organizing of configure.in

Michael Meeks michael.meeks at novell.com
Wed Oct 27 02:38:57 PDT 2010


Hi Niko,

On Wed, 2010-10-27 at 02:41 +0300, Niko Rönkkö wrote:
> I think that it would be best to name all options consistently like:

	I like the idea of consistent naming; though we need to make sure that
all the distro packagers at least get notified so they can change
their .spec files, and we get the distro-config/ parameter files sorted
out cleanly [ hopefully the bulk of their parameters are standardised
there ].

> I just don't know hot to make those changes elsewhere than in configure.

	Sure - that is the place.

> There is also a lots of non documented options like --enable-epm.

	Which need documenting :-)

> And then there is that:
>    http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/build/tree/configure.in#n128
> Which is definedly wrong and which nobody knows how it should be...

	:-)

> I'd like to make a patch to those if only I would know where those
> changes shall made in.

	In configure.in - but can we separate the (more controversial)
re-ordering of all arguments with the fixing / documenting of the
options.

	I guess we should also try to fix this in the 'inner' configure in
bootstrap/ since we hope to abandon the 'outer' configure for 3.3.next

> PS. There is also some OOo'isms like --with-ooo-builddir. Should be
> --with-builddir or something like that - I think.

	:-) quite probably some renaming, and/or simple removal of obsolete &
unusued options is necessary too.

	Thanks,

		Michael.

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