Re: [PATCH 1/2] build: generate sh.config for feeding configure results to shell scripts

Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] build: generate sh.config for feeding configure results to shell scripts

Date: Fri, 30 May 2014 08:42:21 -0700

To: Jani Nikula

Cc: Tomi Ollila, notmuch@notmuchmail.org

From: W. Trevor King


On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 10:43:04AM +0300, Jani Nikula wrote:
> Only include the relevant information.

I prefer this approach too.

> +# Whether the Xapian version in use supports compaction
> +_HAVE_XAPIAN_COMPACT=${have_xapian_compact}

Why the leading underscore?  Are we worried about colliding with
existing HAVE_XAPIAN_COMPACT variables?  Python conventionally uses
the leading underscore for private variables, but these are certainly
meant to be used by the sourcing script.

Cheers,
Trevor

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