Re: Re[2]: mmc patch

On Tuesday, January 28, 2003, at 11:51  AM, Cory Wright wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 10:30:09AM -0500, David Hakim wrote:
>> 2) configure scripts are sh scripts yet in the configure program I can
>> say --with-apache or --with-apache=<path> . How do configure scripts
>> accomplish this ?Do they use helper apps specifically for reading in
>> arguments.
>
>> From what I remember, the configure scripts go through a huge amount 
>> of work
> to see if a parameter has an argument.  I believe the most important 
> part
> though is that parameters with arguments are connected via the '='. 
> This
> means that it is seen as a single parameter, then the script looks for 
> the
> '=' sign and splits it up based on that.
>
Yeah ... that does sound like a hassle. Ok, the  -I option gets my vote.

>> -f  - force to overwrite if module exists in target place
>> <default> - don't overwrite if module exists in target place
>
> I like this, it's consistant with the 'mv', 'cp', and 'rm' Unix 
> commands.
>
> Cory
>
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