[clamav-users] ClamAV's 'configure' doesn't seem to complain about invalid options

Paul Kosinski clamav-users at iment.com
Fri Jul 22 03:55:40 UTC 2022


Building 0.103.6, I ran 'configure' with the option "--disable-clamonaccess" (instead of "--disable-clamonacc") and got no error or warning that the option was not recognized. 

I did this because I realized that I had still been using the old "--disable-clamuko", which also had no effect, and gave no warning that it was ignored.

Since I never tried to use either feature (and divert all the systemd stuff to a dummy directory), the fact that these options were ignored just wasted some disk space.

But there might be situations where misspelled options being silently ignored could cause serious problems.


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