Re: [Bug-apl] why no difference between configure --help=short and --help=recursive

[Juergen Sauermann]

Hi Peter, you are not doing anything wrong. The different --help variants in the configure script are generated by the autoconf tool itself. Whether they make a difference or not probably depends on how the macros provided by autoconf are being used by configure.ac From an autoconf perspective GNU APL is probably a small project because it produces essentially only one binary. Therefore the configure options are flat and so is the help for them. I suppose that in a project that produces, for example, multiple binaries, there might be per binary configure options. But for GNU APL this is simply not the case. /// Jürgen On 04/22/2017 12:17 AM, Peter Teeson wrote: Wanting to understand my ./configure options, for SVN 927, I did ./configure --help, ./configure --help=short, and ./configure --help=recursive. Captured the output from all 3 and then did a diff on the logs of the short vs the recursive. There is no difference other than the values of --help. Did I do something wrong? Peter