Re: [bug-gawk] Optional packages - what should be enabled by default?

[arnold]

Hi.

"David Kaspar [Dee'Kej]" <address@hidden> wrote:

>  * libsigsegv - I have already enabled this, because I've found out it was
> disabled around year 2009, IIRC, because of some bug which made build to
> fail. It was apparently fixed, but not re-enabled in gawk again (seems like
> previous maintainers have forgotten about that).

I've had a lot of grief on and off with libsigsegv. It's disabled by default
because of that history. Feel free to enable it for Fedora if you want;
I don't think it brings a lot of added value, but I don't object.

>  * libiconv - I guess enabling this package does not make sense anymore,
> because Fedora tries very hard for its translations to be correct, and
> files be either in ASCII or UTF-8. (This package is not present at Fedora
> anymore, AFAIK.)

I suspect gettext adds this to configure.ac.

>  * libintl - should be part of gettext library in Fedora, and we use gettext
> during package build.

Ditto here.

>  * --with-whiny-user-strftime - I guess that enabling this does not make
> sense on Fedora either, since the build is passing normally without it
> (IMHO, Fedora is not a deficient system :)).

Correct. Don't use it. I should probably remove that from master.

> I think for Fedora, the most interesting optional packages are:
>  * --with-gnu-ld [default=no] - since Fedora uses the linker from GNU
> binutils collection, I guess this should be enabled (I'm not sure if this
> is detected during ./configure run)

Yet another auto-generated feature, I think direct from Autoconf. I would
think that it would be noticed automatically.

>  * --with-readline - with this one, I'm really have no clue. Seeing the
> library description, I can't decide if it would be useful anyhow to Fedora
> users...

It's useful since the gawk debugger will use readline if it's available.
Please make libreadline and its headers a prerequisite for gawk; then
configure should find it automatically.

Thanks,

Arnold