the question about disabling goes in the direction of the

  --with-db=no

option. using this option currently stops the configuration process.

can this be changed to a warning?

-piet


-------- Original-Nachricht --------
> Datum: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:20:41 +0100
> Von: "Ralf S. Engelschall" <rse+rpm-devel@rpm5.org>
> An: rpm-devel@rpm5.org
> Betreff: Re: Releasing rpm-5.0.1

> 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
>                                        rse@engelschall.com
>                                        www.engelschall.com
> 
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