Hello, * Ian Lance Taylor wrote on Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 04:29:19PM CET: > > I agree that new options should only be added at the appropriate > level, but there is one disadvantage: top level configure --help will > not display them.
Autoconf 2.5x implements --help=recursive. > But then configure --help is kind of useless anyhow since it has so > much boilerplate, so this is not a significant problem. If I want to find something in a long list, I can pipe it to less and search for it. That's trivial, but it's a good enough reason to have something listed. You may find this discussion currently on the Autoconf list helpful: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.autoconf.general/8755 Cheers, Ralf
