Re: Overlays configuration (Was: commit: ldap/ configure)

["Kurt D. Zeilenga" <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org>]

At 01:09 PM 4/18/2004, I wrote:
>At 12:50 AM 4/17/2004, Pierangelo Masarati wrote:
>>I was wondering if a --enable-overlays switch could be of interest. 
>
>I rather see --enable-overlays=auto --enable-overlays=automod
>and likewise for backends.  The platform may not have all the
>necessary features to support all backends and overlays. For
>instance, I cannot build back-sql and back-perl on all
>platforms I commonly development on
>
>I think it better if the flag didn't mandate building of the
>overlay/backend, but instead just indicated that it was
>desirable.  Of course, that implies each individual
>backend/overlay supported auto[mod] configuration.

I'm thinking that the distinct between autoyes and automod
should be implicit in auto.  That is, we really should
just have [yes mod auto no] where auto attempts mod
(if enabled) then yes.