From 1e03a686a386314be25520dc70e7be01d0f7193b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Meeks <michael.meeks@collabora.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 16:27:30 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] autogen: add --best-effort to help automation bridge option
 changes.

When we add or deprecate configure --with / --enable options lots
of scripts can break. Instead just add --best-effort to your autogen.sh
command line to get warnings but not a failure in this case.

Change-Id: I73d6ba53ee179384c2e34bf6780d074b04f70c06
---
 autogen.sh | 10 +++++++++-
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/autogen.sh b/autogen.sh
index 1a1a2d452ed3..cdf4e768f939 100755
--- a/autogen.sh
+++ b/autogen.sh
@@ -161,6 +161,10 @@ die "Failed to generate the configure script" if (! -f "configure");
 # Handle help arguments first, so we don't clobber autogen.lastrun
 for my $arg (@ARGV) {
     if ($arg =~ /^(--help|-h|-\?)$/) {
+        print STDERR "autogen.sh - libreoffice configuration helper\n";
+        print STDERR "   --clean        forcibly re-generate configuration\n";
+        print STDERR "   --best-effort  don't fail on un-known configure with/enable options\n";
+        print STDERR "\nOther arguments passed directly to configure:\n\n";
         system ("./configure --help");
         exit;
     }
@@ -203,6 +207,8 @@ WARNING
 
 my @args;
 my $default_config = "$src_path/distro-configs/default.conf";
+my $option_checking = 'fatal';
+
 if (-f $default_config) {
     print STDERR "Reading default config file: $default_config.\n";
     push @args, read_args ($default_config);
@@ -217,6 +223,8 @@ for my $arg (@cmdline_args) {
         } else {
             push @args, read_args ($config);
         }
+    } elsif ($arg =~ m/--best-effort$/) {
+        $option_checking = 'warn';
     } else {
         push @args, $arg;
     }
@@ -252,7 +260,7 @@ if (defined $ENV{NOCONFIGURE}) {
         }
     }
     push @args, "--srcdir=$src_path";
-    push @args, "--enable-option-checking=fatal";
+    push @args, "--enable-option-checking=$option_checking";
 
     print "Running ./configure with '" . join ("' '", @args), "'\n";
     system ("./configure", @args) && die "Error running configure";