>>>>> "Peter" == Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Peter> Quoth Akim Demaille: Does this seem feasible?
>> Very much.
>>
>> I share the opinion that too long a configure --help is painful,
>> nevertheless, on this precise case it is the additional burden that
>> we put on the maintainer which makes me little excited with this.
Peter> No, not remove the options nor disable them, just don't print
Peter> them in the help screen.
There is --help=short:
| ~ace % ./configure -hs
| Configuration of Autoconf 2.14a:
| ~ace %
Hey, that was short :)
Lemme take that of the fileutils:
| ~/src/fileutils % ./configure -hs
|
| Optional Features:
| --disable-FEATURE do not include FEATURE (same as --enable-FEATURE=no)
| --enable-FEATURE[=ARG] include FEATURE [ARG=yes]
| --disable-dependency-tracking Speeds up one-time builds
| --enable-dependency-tracking Do not reject slow dependency extractors
| --disable-largefile omit support for large files
| --disable-assert turn off assertions
| --disable-nls do not use Native Language Support
|
| Optional Packages:
| --with-PACKAGE[=ARG] use PACKAGE [ARG=yes]
| --without-PACKAGE do not use PACKAGE (same as --with-PACKAGE=no)
| --without-included-regex don't compile regex; this is the default on
| systems with version 2 of the GNU C library
| (use with caution on other system)
| --with-included-gettext use the GNU gettext library included here
| --with-catgets use catgets functions if available
|
| Some influent environment variables:
| CFLAGS Extra flags for the C compiler
I think `-hs' is the right thing, even though I agree newbies will
certainly not use it.
Akim
