> >> It might be a good idea to add a -DBUILD_AUTO flag
> that causes any
> >> failing checks to simply disable the associated
> functionality as Autotools does. If you want to see this
> please file an enhancement
> >> bug report.
> 
> The defaults are not terribly important.  What I'd
> like to see is a WITH_ALL flag similar to BUILD_ALL.  I
> do like the idea of a BUILD_AUTO flag.   When
> a needed dependency is not found, a message like:
> 
> libtiff.so not found.  Disabling TIFF support.
> 
> Even better would be a summary of findings at the end of
> the cmake invocation.  For instance, openssh gives the
> following at the end of configure:
> ...
> This tells the user exactly what is being built.  If
> the user wants something else, he has a basis to determine
> what is missing (or extra) and make the appropriate
> changes.

Yes, this sounds palatable. As upstream providers we need to test everything. Right now doing that is cumbersome.

I understand that individual packagers don't want everything enabled. I don't either, but I am looking at this as an upstream provider and not just a packager. We can't test everything if most of the features are disabled by default.

Darrell