[Libvir] [patch 7/9] Add support for lokkit

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 02:00:36PM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote:
> "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones at redhat.com> wrote:
> > Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> >> Hi Rich,
> >>
> >> On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 12:13 +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> >>
> >>> Just a minor nit here: My reading of the autoconf info page is that
> >>> this should be a --with argument, not an --enable argument.
> >>
> >> 	I don't mind either way, but my understanding was that --with would
> >> only be appropriate if we were doing:
> >>
> >>   --with-lokkit=/usr/sbin/lokkit
> >>
> >> 	i.e. that --with was used for specifying the location of some external
> >> dependency, whereas --enable is used for simply enabling or disabling a
> >> feature.
> >
> > You could be right.
> >
> > /me invokes Jim Meyering
> > ... https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2008-January/msg00126.html
> 
> Hi guys,
> 
> You probably know that --with-THING and --enable-THING are functionally
> equivalent, and the question is about which should appear in
> "./configure --help" output.
> 
> The autoconf documentation describes the distinction
> between --with-PACKAGE and --enable-FEATURE, but since lokkit
> is a package, and "lokkit-support" can be considered a feature of
> libvirt, it's a little ambiguous.
> 
> However, since autoconf gives the examples of "--with-x" and
> "--with-gnu-as", "--with-lokkit" does seem to be more in line.

Yep, I think we should use  --with-lokkit since it also fits it a little
better with the other --with-PROG args we already have - even though they
don't all take a path as their optional arg (yet).

Dan.
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