On Friday 06 February 2009, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:
>On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 12:40 AM, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett AT verizon DOT 
>net> 
wrote:
>> When did this become an error?
>
>...
>
>> configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --with-tapedev
>
>I don't recall that being an option, and brief search of the revision
>history doesn't turn it up (which means that, if it ever was an
>option, it was during the CVS era and thus before 2.5.0).
>
>What's changed, probably, is that you've upgraded autoconf to issue
>warnings for unused options.
>
>Note that it's just a warning, so you should just remove that option
>and go merrily on your way :)
>
>Dustin

Apparently it does.  Then I also missed another message because I was using my 
configure driver script, it seems gnuplot had somehow gone on the missing 
list, so I had yum install that too and its rebuilding now.  So while I'm 
editing my script, which has had that option since I switched to FILE: what, 
3 years ago now?, I'll add a time delay in front of the make line so there is 
time to read anything else configure may want to advise me about.

Thanks Dustin.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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