Tom Tromey wrote:
> Akim> Or else, it should be Automake who should communicate something
> Akim> to Autoconf. That's a new situation. Maybe Automake could
> Akim> create an m4 file with all the directories it needs. Kinda
> Akim> bizarre, it never happened before.
>
> I don't want to do this in automake.
> It would mean re-running autoconf each time a Makefile.am is touched.
> That would mean re-running configure, too. This way lies madness.
>
>
> I agree that autoconf has too many directory options. They are almost
> always not useful. However, getting rid of them is probably the wrong
> approach.
Add contextual help strings. Something like
`configure --help=install' would print all the directory stuff, while
`configure --help' would advertise the contextual helps only.
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