[ python-Bugs-960325 ] "require <feature>" configure option

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Bugs item #960325, was opened at 2004-05-25 21:07
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Category: Build
Group: Feature Request
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Hallvard B Furuseth (hfuru)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: "require <feature>" configure option

Initial Comment:
I'd like to be able to configure Python so that
Configure or Make will fail if a particular
feature is unavailable.  Currently I'm concerned
with SSL, which just gets a warning from Make:

  building '_ssl' extension
  *** WARNING: renaming "_ssl" since importing it
failed: ld.so.1: ./python: fatal: libssl.so.0.9.8: open
failed: No such file or directory

Since that's buried in a lot of Make output, it's
easy to miss.  Besides, for semi-automatic builds
it's in any case good to get a non-success exit
status from the build process.

Looking at the Make output, I see the bz2 extension
is another example where this might be useful.

Maybe the option would simply be '--enable-ssl',
unless you want that to merely try to build with
ssl.

Or '--require=ssl,bz2,...'.


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>Comment By: Hallvard B Furuseth (hfuru)
Date: 2004-06-02 13:56

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Ah, so that's what RFE means.  You could rename
that to 'Enhancement Requests'.  Anyway, QoI
issues tend to resemble bug issues more than
enhancement issues, so '"bug" of type feature
request' looks good to me.
Though I'll resubmit as RFE if you ask.

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Comment By: Terry J. Reedy (tjreedy)
Date: 2004-06-02 04:07

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Yes, this is not a PEP item.  I didn't notice Feature Reqest 
since it is redundant vis a vis the separate RFE list.


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Comment By: Hallvard B Furuseth (hfuru)
Date: 2004-06-01 20:13

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I marked it with Group: Feature Request.
Not a bug, but a quality of implementation issue.
It seemed more proper here than as a PEP.

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Comment By: Terry J. Reedy (tjreedy)
Date: 2004-06-01 19:58

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Are you claiming that there is an actual bug, or is this merely 
an RFE (Request For Enhancement) item?

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