Re: [PATCH] Output configuration status after ./configure run.

Euler Taveira de Oliveira escribió:
> Tom Lane escreveu:
> > I'm still quite dubious about the usefulness, but I could live with this
> > if someone explains to me how the printout is going to stay within 24x80
> > given the inevitable growth in number of configure options ...
> > 
> AFAICS, we have > 40 configure options. If we want this to fit in 24 rows (i)
> we should choose popular options or (ii) print only features/packages that
> have a non-default option/value.

Or (iii) display more than one per line, for example

	Configured PL languages: Perl Python Tcl
	Configued block sizes: WAL: 8192    data: 8192    sth else: 16384

There you have six configure options in two lines.

> Both ideas aren't ideal for machine-readable
> format (as someone mentioned pgbuildfarm) because the summary is partial

My idea regarding buildfarm was to have it for human consumption, not
machine readable.

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