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Re: fix 2.64 fopen glitch, disable option checking
> With 2.64 and up, the AC_DISABLE_OPTION_CHECKING avoids warnings about
> --enable-*, --disable-*, --with-* and --without-*
> switches passed in by the user and unknown to the toplevel configure
> script. Note that with this patch, subdirectory configure scripts may
> still warn about unknown switches. We could easily avoid that across
> the whole tree by letting just the toplevel pass
> --disable-option-checking to each sub configure script invoked, e.g.,
> by adding it to $baseargs in configure.ac. Do you want that? If yes,
> OK to just squash it in with this patch? (2.59 scripts will ignore
> the argument.)
Yes and yes.
> See these threads for the corresponding bug reports and discussions:
> <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.autoconf.bugs/6839>
> <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.autoconf.patches/6656>
>
> Wrt. also overriding the things for the other languages, I'm not sure
> that's ever necessary, but it can't hurt to play safe here.
>
> OK to commit to GCC and src right away?
Ok.
Paolo