[tex-k] lcdf-typetools and TeX live

[Eddie Kohler]

Hi Peter,

I have immediate feedback on this, which is that --with is not appropriate here.


 From GNU coding standards:

‘--enable-feature[=parameter]’
     Configure the package to build and install an optional user-level 
facility called feature. This allows users to choose which optional features 
to include. Giving an optional parameter of ‘no’ should omit feature, if it is 
built by default.

     No ‘--enable’ option should ever cause one feature to replace another. No 
‘--enable’ option should ever substitute one useful behavior for another 
useful behavior. The only proper use for ‘--enable’ is for questions of 
whether to build part of the program or exclude it.


‘--with-package’
     The package package will be installed, so configure this package to work 
with package.

     Possible values of package include ‘gnu-as’ (or ‘gas’), ‘gnu-ld’, 
‘gnu-libc’, ‘gdb’, ‘x’, and ‘x-toolkit’.

     Do not use a ‘--with’ option to specify the file name to use to find 
certain files. That is outside the scope of what ‘--with’ options are for.


The autoconf manual has similar language.

I'm not a standards lawyer, but it seems neither necessary nor appropriate to 
change an existing behavior (on which some people might depend) into a less 
standard behavior, just to satisfy texlive's packaging.

If you want texlive to pay attention to --without-cfftot1 rather than 
--disable-cfftot1 (but why?), please build that support into the top level 
makefile and translate it to --enable-cfftot1 for lcdf-typetools configuration.

Or maybe explain to me in more detail why this change.

Eddie


Peter Breitenlohner wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Peter Breitenlohner wrote:
> 
>> Hi Eddie,
>>
>> I am in the process of restructuring the TeX live build system.  ...
> 
> I forgot to mention, that I have changed the --disable-cfftot1 & Co.
> into --without-cfftot1, such that the resulting top-level "configure 
> --help"
> yields:
> 
>   --without-lacheck       do not build the lacheck package
>   --without-lcdf-typetools
>                           do not build the lcdf-typetools package
>   --without-cfftot1           do not build the cfftot1 program
>   --without-mmafm             do not build the mmafm program
>   --without-mmpfb             do not build the mmpfb program
>   --without-otfinfo           do not build the otfinfo program
>   --without-otftotfm          do not build the otftotfm program
>   --without-t1dotlessj        do not build the t1dotlessj program
>   --without-t1lint            do not build the t1lint program
>   --without-t1rawafm          do not build the t1rawafm program
>   --without-t1reencode        do not build the t1reencode program
>   --without-t1testpage        do not build the t1testpage program
>   --without-ttftotype42       do not build the ttftotype42 program
>   --without-musixflx      do not build the musixflx package
> 
> Regards,
> Peter Breitenlohner <peb at mppmu.mpg.de>