bug#70638: Automake custom-driver interface documentation doesn't match implementation

2024-04-29 Thread Karl Berry
Hi Mark - thanks for the report. it seems to me that the least bad approach is to correct the documentation and usage messages to describe it accurately, with a historical note in the manual explaining the long-standing error in previous versions of the documentation. I agree. Wou

bug#70638: Automake custom-driver interface documentation doesn't match implementation

2024-04-28 Thread Mark Wooding
This is sort of a follow-up on #22445; alas, nobody involved with that bug noticed the actual scale of the problem. I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news. In essence, #22445 observed that the usage message printed by `test-driver' showed option arguments attached to their options with an `=' sig