Add --without-libpq and --without-libncurses options

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 4997fd52b8c57f817c4f2ceb16d01ef30ec7e191..303f507055612ae2d238e917ea721e6992c78f86 100644 (file)
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -78,6 +78,9 @@ The following packages are optional.
       later.  Installing Texinfo will allow you to build PSPP
       documentation in PostScript or PDF format.
 
+    * libpq, from Postgresql (http://postgresql.org). This enables PSPP 
+      to read Postgresql databases.
+
 Basic Installation
 ==================
 
@@ -199,6 +202,12 @@ Optional Features
     Build the gui developer tools.  There is no reason to use this
     option unless you're involved with the development of PSPP
 
+`--without-lib{xx}'
+    Optional libraries should normally be detected and the relevant
+    functionality will be built they exist.  However, on some poorly
+    configured systems a library may exist, but be totally broken.
+    In these cases you can use --without-lib{xx} to force configure
+    to disregard it.
 
 Defining Variables
 ==================

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 8f86a643b52ae579834a7c3de2e50d41a43ce264..fc9524b7d9deb730b6527ee49b0f4136f11e4ef5 100644 (file)
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ PSPP_PERL
 
 dnl Internationalization macros.
 AM_GNU_GETTEXT([external], [need-ngettext])
-AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION([0.16.1])
+AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION([0.17])
 
 dnl Checks for libraries.
 AC_SYS_LARGEFILE
@@ -62,13 +62,18 @@ dnl To overcome this, we first check for libpq in the standard places, and
 dnl only set PG_LDFLAGS if it's not found.
 
 
-AC_SEARCH_LIBS([PQexec], [pq], [libpq_in_std_lib_path=yes])
+AC_ARG_WITH(
+  libpq, 
+  [AS_HELP_STRING([--without-libpq], [don't compile in Postgres capability])])
+
+if test x"$with_libpq" != x"no" ; then
+ AC_SEARCH_LIBS([PQexec], [pq], [libpq_in_std_lib_path=yes])
 
-AC_ARG_VAR([PG_CONFIG], [Full pathname of the pg_config program shipped with Postgresql])
-if test x"$cross_compiling" != x"yes" ; then
+ AC_ARG_VAR([PG_CONFIG], [Full pathname of the pg_config program shipped with Postgresql])
+ if test x"$cross_compiling" != x"yes" ; then
    AC_PATH_PROG([PG_CONFIG], [pg_config], [], [$PATH:/usr/local/pgsql/bin:/usr/pgsql/bin])
-fi 
-if test -n "$PG_CONFIG" ; then 
+ fi 
+ if test -n "$PG_CONFIG" ; then 
    AC_SUBST(PG_CONFIG)
    AC_DEFINE([PSQL_SUPPORT], 1,
    [Define to 1 if building in support for reading from postgres databases.])
@@ -86,6 +91,7 @@ if test -n "$PG_CONFIG" ; then
          AC_DEFINE([USE_SSL],1,
                    [Define to 1 if the openssl library is present.])
            ,)
+ fi
 fi
 AM_CONDITIONAL(PSQL_SUPPORT, test -n "$PG_CONFIG")
 
@@ -121,24 +127,30 @@ dnl we'll trust it to find the right information.  Otherwise, we'll
 dnl try to discover it ourselves.
 dnl To confound things further, Cygwin has decided to rename ncurses5-config
 dnl to ncurses8-config !!!
-if test x"$cross_compiling" != x"yes" ; then
-  AC_CHECK_PROGS([NCURSES_CONFIG], [ncurses5-config ncurses8-config])
-fi
-if test x"$NCURSES_CONFIG" = x ; then
-  AC_SEARCH_LIBS([tgetent], [ncurses],
-    [curses_available=yes; AC_CHECK_HEADERS([term.h curses.h],,[curses_available=no])])
-else
-  curses_available=yes
-  NCURSES_CFLAGS=`$NCURSES_CONFIG --cflags`
-  NCURSES_LIBS=`$NCURSES_CONFIG --libs`
-  AC_SUBST(NCURSES_CFLAGS)
-  AC_SUBST(NCURSES_LIBS)
-fi
-if test x"$curses_available" = x"yes" ; then
-   AC_DEFINE([LIBNCURSES_USABLE], 1,
-     [Define to 1 if the libncurses is both present and usable.])
+AC_ARG_WITH(
+  libncurses, 
+  [AS_HELP_STRING([--without-libncurses], [don't compile in ncurses functions])])
+
+if test x"$with_libncurses" != x"no" ; then
+  if test x"$cross_compiling" != x"yes" ; then
+         AC_CHECK_PROGS([NCURSES_CONFIG], [ncurses5-config ncurses8-config])
+  fi
+  if test x"$NCURSES_CONFIG" = x ; then
+         AC_SEARCH_LIBS([tgetent], [ncurses],
+             [curses_available=yes; AC_CHECK_HEADERS([term.h curses.h],,[curses_available=no])])
+  else
+         curses_available=yes
+         NCURSES_CFLAGS=`$NCURSES_CONFIG --cflags`
+         NCURSES_LIBS=`$NCURSES_CONFIG --libs`
+         AC_SUBST(NCURSES_CFLAGS)
+         AC_SUBST(NCURSES_LIBS)
+  fi
+  if test x"$curses_available" = x"yes" ; then
+         AC_DEFINE([LIBNCURSES_USABLE], 1,
+             [Define to 1 if the libncurses is both present and usable.])
+  fi
+  AC_CHECK_HEADERS([termcap.h])
 fi
-AC_CHECK_HEADERS([termcap.h])
 
 PSPP_READLINE