Hello Křištof.
On Wednesday 27 July 2011, Křištof Želechovski wrote:
> { autoreconf -V; }
> autoreconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.68
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> { autoreconf --verbose; }
> autoreconf: `configure.ac' or `configure.in' is required
>
I don't think this is a bug; in fact, I'd expect `-v' (lowercase!) to be an
alias for `--verbose' (as is the case with many GNU coreutils, and also with
third-party tools, such as ssh and python). `-V' should be either rejected
(as is the case with automake and aclocal) or an alias for `--version' (as
is the case with autoconf, autom4te, autoheader and autoreconf). Also, the
autoreconf help screen correctly documents that `-V' (uppercase) is an alias
for `--version', and `-v' (lowercase) is an alias for `--verbose'.
Regards,
Stefano
