Maxim,

Thanks for your reply.


On 05/10/2018 08:47 AM, Maxim Dounin wrote:
> More importantly, "--with-compat" provides compatibility between
> builds with different configure options.
>
> Without the "--with-compat" argument, one have to use exactly the
> same "./configure" line to build both nginx and a module. The
> "--with-compat" option relaxes this restriction, and it is more or
> less enough to build both nginx and a module with "--with-compat".
>
> This generally simplifies building dynamic modules, and also
> allows one to load the same module into different nginx variants
> built with different flags.

Is there a reason, then, that `--with-compat` is not a default build
option?  Is there a particular specific reason it was *not* set as a
default compile-time option?


Thomas
_______________________________________________
nginx-devel mailing list
nginx-devel@nginx.org
http://mailman.nginx.org/mailman/listinfo/nginx-devel