>>>>> "Martin" == Martin Buchholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Martin> The configure script I help maintain prints this:
Well, CVS Autoconf does this:
/tmp/a2ps-4.13 % ./configure --help nostromo 8:49
`configure' configures software source code packages to adapt to many kinds
of systems.
Usage: configure [OPTION]... [VAR=VALUE]... [HOST]
To safely assign special values to environment variables (e.g., CC,
CFLAGS...), give to `configure' the definition as VAR=VALUE.
[CUT]
Some influent environment variables:
CFLAGS Extra flags for the C compiler
(And it does *not* call your pager, eeek!)
Martin> The configure script also recognizes some environment
Martin> variables, each of which is equivalent to a corresponding
Martin> configure flag. A specified configure flag always overrides
Martin> the environment variable.
We wanted to avoid the explosion of options. CVS Autoconf remembers
all the variables which were set on its command line:
./configure extra_verbose=yes
plus those which were selected by the configure.in writer.
CFLAGS=-gxemacs ./configure
We still have to chose a few default variables, but the next Autoconf
might provide a lot of the things you were missing. Come on, join us :)
Akim
