Re: should we make --enable-tirpc the default in current nfs-utils?

Mike Frysinger
2009-06-08T14:23:57Z

On Monday 08 June 2009 10:16:07 Chuck Lever wrote:
> Frankly, I think dropping back automatically is not a good idea. The
> torrent of messages that configure normally spits out means that
> messages about a missing libtirpc are going to be missed in most
> cases, and folks will think that because they specified --enable-tirpc
> on the configure command line, that's the build they got.

the automatic fallback is when no tirpc option is specified. if --enable-
tirpc is specified, then it should fail (and that is what the proposed patch
does).
-mike