On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 16:48:30 +0000, David W Noon wrote:

> >Surely what `./configure` does if I don't make any choice about its
> >compilation option is to be considered a "default"?  
> 
> Gentoo ebuilds do not run ./configure without options, unless there are
> no options available.

No, but they generally set the USE defaults to give the same settings as
running ./configure with none. In other words, they are following the
upstream defaults.


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Neil Bothwick

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