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From: Robert Haas on 10 Feb 2010 22:02
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 9:17 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(a)sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas(a)gmail.com> writes:
>> On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Alvaro Herrera
>> <alvherre(a)commandprompt.com> wrote:
>>> If this doesn't fit in 24x80 maybe we need to find a more compact way to
>>> display things.
>
>> +1.  I wouldn't mind a one-line summary, but a two page summary seems
>> like a lot.
>
> So it seems there's some consensus that:
>
> 1. This printout should display everything configurable from a configure
> option, and nothing else (ie, not any of the platform-dependent
> conclusions that configure draws).
>
> 2. The printout has to be made to fit in 24x80 or so.
>
> I'm still quite dubious about the usefulness, but I could live with this
> if someone explains to me how the printout is going to stay within 24x80
> given the inevitable growth in number of configure options ...

I'm dubious too. I'm +1 for shorter, but neutral on the idea in general.

....Robert

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From: Robert Haas on 11 Feb 2010 11:17
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 2:30 AM, Priit Laes <plaes(a)plaes.org> wrote:
> Also:
>> Hmm.  That implies that you didn't look at the command that you typed
>> but you did look at its output.  I'm not going to say "no one does
>> that" (who am I to judge?) but it seems kind of strange to me.
>
> Yes, strange but I don't really make the connection of blindly typing
> the command and figuring out what options configure supports... :S

Well if you want to know what options it supports just do ./configure --help ...

....Robert

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