[csw-maintainers] new wiki page Enable Fast Install Information

Philip Brown phil at bolthole.com
Mon Mar 16 19:16:56 CET 2009


On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 01:00:32PM -0500, Mike Watters wrote:
> ....
> Unfortunately, that is the recommendation from the manpage for Sun's cc

that's irrelevant.... we are determining what WE recommend, for OUR
binaries :-)

> > Also, while at the top, it mentions 
> > 
> > Macro: AC_DISABLE_FAST_INSTALL
> > 
> > It does not mention how a maintainer should SET this macro, to disable
> > libtoool fast-install
> 
> Libtool by default has this option turned off.
> The configure scripts that are generated with automake/autoconf
> seem to be the ones that default to on.
> I will try to make that more clear.

To be even clearer: maintainers probably dont care which defaults to what.
They will primarily care about, "How Do I Turn This Off?"
;-)




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