FreeTDS Development Group

["James K. Lowden" <jklowden AT freetds.org>]

Johnny C. Lam wrote:
> FWIW, most standard GNU configure scripts have options that you may want
> 
> to adopt into the FreeTDS configure script:
> 
> --with-xxx=DIR                        includes in DIR/include, libs in 
> DIR/lib
> --with-xxx-includes=INCDIR    includes in INCDIR
> --with-xxx-libraries=LIBDIR   libs in LIBDIR
> 
> You can just specify --with-xxx=DIR to set the parent directory of the 
> headers and libraries directories, and you can override the default 
> DIR/include and DIR/lib via --with-xxx-includes and
> --with-xxx-libraries.

Why Johnny Lam!  My word, as I live and breath!  

Is the 'xxx' literal?  If you could point me to an example configure.ac
(perhaps offlist), I'd gladly adopt the convention.  

ISTM these are pretty conventional:

$ ./configure --help | grep odbc
  --disable-odbc          do not attempt to build odbc the driver
  --with-iodbc=DIR        build odbc driver against iODBC in DIR
  --with-unixodbc=DIR     build odbc driver against unixODBC in DIR
  --with-odbc-nodm=DIR    build odbc using headers in DIR/include

although this is a bit of an oddball:

$ ./configure --help | grep 'iconv-prefix\['
  --with-libiconv-prefix[=DIR]  search for libiconv in DIR/include and
DIR/lib

I'm not so sure about eliminating confusion, though.  It's pretty
confusing even to someone who configures packages only occasionally.  

Thanks.  

--jkl