[geos-devel] 3.10.0rc1

[Sandro Santilli]

On Fri, Oct 15, 2021 at 09:05:46AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> 
> (I don't see a rc1 tag in git.)
> 
> I see there's configure in git, that sort of deals.  However, I don't
> think it really does the right thing for all sorts of args that are
> often passed to configure, and as much as I don't enjoy cmake pain, I
> think it's better for people running configure especially from packaging
> or scripts to realize that they need to translate their world into
> cmake.
> 
> So this script could perhaps
> 
>   print out that autoconf has been removed and that one must use cmake
> 
>   print out a hint that "cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/foo" is a
>   replacement for ./configure --prefix=/usr/foo
> 
>   exit with status 1, so that any well-written script/package stuff will
>   fail

That script is mine.

I would love to still use ./configure as the switches I use are...
well, none (and --prefix, for running your test).

Right now you DO get the WARNING printed, and I think you get a
failure if you pass any unsupported switch, is that not enough ?

--strk;