FreeTDS Development Group

[Sven Köhler <skoehler AT upb.de>]

Below is one answer on a mail i send to the autoconf-general mailinglist.
i don't know what he's talking about, but perhaps it'll help

>
> hi!
>
> is there a way to tell configure to check params like --with-foo?
>
> ./configure --foo failes with an error
> ./configure --with-foo doesn't fail ... it just ignores the "--with-foo"
> option.
>
> this might also apply to --enable-foo
>
> ./configure --with-foo should fail with the message, that the option
> called "foo" is not available.
>
> any hints?

Look up AC_ARG_WITH or use:

  http://autogen.sf.net/conftest.html