Re: autoconf option fun

[Bruce Korb]

Pavel Roskin wrote:
> 
> Hello, Peter!
> 
> > Exactly where do the GNU standards say anything about long option
> > abbreviation?
> 
> Well, whenever I don't check something I'm punished for that :-)
> 
> Alexandre wrote that. I just repeated after him. I couldn't find anything in
> standards.texi about abbreviations.
> 
> So it's probably a de-facto semi-standard.

De-facto often used convention.  It is also highly desireable,
especially for the excessively verbose long options :-).
That is why I went to the trouble to support them.