On Tue, Jan 29, 2008, Peter Kalbus wrote:

> what does this magic --with-bugreport=<address> do?

t just configures the bug reporting address to be different from
rpm-devel@rpm5.org and this way allows you to use configurations which
are not officially supported by rpm5.org as they usually cause too much
support trouble.

> i don't want to disable errors in general.

It isn't about disabling errors in general.
It just let's use proceed in configuring "non-standard" configurations.

> can it be changed for 5.0.1?

I perhaps do not quite understand. Why has to be anything changed here?
It is just an Autoconf option which is required in order to downgrade an
error to a warning. That's all, nothing more or less...

                                       Ralf S. Engelschall
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