Re: Updated netfilter mark patch

On Tue, 19 Oct 2010 12:35:57 -0600, Alex Rousskov
<rousskov_at_measurement-factory.com> wrote:
> On 10/06/2010 01:13 PM, Kinkie wrote:
>>> True, but it gets set back to "no" if the libraries are subsequently
not
>>> found. Not a problem though if Amos has changed it to a better way of
>>> doing it.
>>
>> The current standard for --enable and --with flags is: "yes" means
>> force-enable, fail the build if not possible. "no" means
>> force-disable, "auto" means "try to enable, disable if some required
>> part is not available". For --with flags, everything else is usually
>> considered as a path to be used.
>>
>> Please everyone remember that, let's not get the autoconf-refactor
>> effort be wasted :)
>
> It is easy to forget this. Where we should document these rules? As a
> comment in configure.in? Or is it already documented somewhere?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Alex.

http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Squid3CodingGuidelines already covers both C++
and automake policies. I've added a menu to easily navigate the page and
this under autoconf guidelines.

Amos
Received on Tue Oct 19 2010 - 23:57:08 MDT