svn configure probs

Greetings all;

Seems the configure script from svn is forcing a static binary build,
despite using --enable-shared and --disable-static. I put some "echo"
lines in the configure script to see what's going on, and despite the
flags being recognized earlier in the config process, near the end it
still forces static compile.

Here's the bit of script that seems to be the problem:

#define XP_UNIX_TARGET_GTK 1
_ACEOF

echo "TEST RESULT dynamic - $enable_dynamic static - $enable_static"
        # build static binary by default
        if test "$enable_dynamic" == "no" && \
           test "$enable_static" == "no"; then
                enable_dynamic="no"
                enable_static="yes"
        fi
fi

My little "echo" line there shows both $enable_dynamic and enable_static
as being set to no. I don't see anywhere earlier in the script where these
vars are set. I changed the lines after 'then' to make it enable a dynamic
build by default. Shouldn't the default be to build a dynamic bin anyway?

Also, something is screwy when trying to enable plugins. "configure
--help" doesn't show --enable-default-plugins as an option; passing
--enable-default-plugins doesn't enable them (unless I'm mistaken and the
"default" plugin list is very short); and, there's no errors being shown
if there are errors when trying to enable the plugins. The only plugin
shown at the end of configure was opendocument. Seems like all the others
were skipped, with no indication of any errors, nothing in the config.log
either. I also tried --enable-plugins (with no other params.)

I spoke to "hub" on irc tonight who mentioned there's some option to get
configure to be more verbose and show the errors but neither of us know
what it is. If I use --enable-plugins="list of plugins" then I get error
messages for each of the plugins.

It would make sense if --enable-plugins assumed "all" if the list was
empty. It should show error messages along the way if something is missing
while trying to enable a specific plugin, at the very least.

Just seems like the configure script from svn needs a little cleaning up.

This is on a slackware v12 linux i686 platform, using svn from 2-23-08.
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Received on Sun Feb 24 07:37:00 2008