Re: [MERGE] Fixes to configure.in and build-test layer-01

Kinkie wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 4:54 AM, Amos Jeffries <squid3_at_treenet.co.nz> wrote:
>> Kinkie wrote:
>>> While doing some build-testing I've noticed that configure doesn't handle
>>> gracefully some malformed --with(out) arguments.
>>>
>>> This patch addresses three related issues:
>>> - makes the error messages for those cases more informative
>>> - changes some (echo + exit) sequences into AC_MSG_ERROR() standard
>>> autoconf macros
>>> - changes the layer-01 test options so that it doesn't invoke invalid
>>> configure options
>> Great. Thank you for catching this.
>>
>> I'm just thinking we should add graceful handling of --without-default-user
>> with these changes.
>
> That's trickier. While unusual, "no" is a valid username.. Should we
> second-guess our users?

Understood. In light of that I'm voting +1

Noting that there is another configure change still needed;

  --with-maxfd equivalent to --with-filedescriptors (from Squid-2)

but not directly related to this patch.

Amos

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