Re: ./configure argument checking

Tom Lane wrote:
> Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> writes:
> > I would like a pedantic mode, but the method of activation is a tricky
> > issue. You want it to be 'on' for normal users but 'off' for automatic
> > build scripts.
> 
> A quiet mode would work better, because it could be on by default for 
> both cases.  However, people may be too used to expecting to see chatter
> from configure scripts --- anyone who's used a few before would probably
> think the script was hung :-(

Maybe have it emit single chars instead of lines for each check?  That
way it looks like something's going on.  Not sure how difficult that is
with autoconf.

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