* Howard Chu wrote on Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 05:02:23AM CEST: > I know that autoconf 2.13 generated the help text for AC_ARG_ENABLE and > AC_ARG_WITH in the order in which they appeared in the configure.in > file, but now I'm working with autoconf 2.59 and it appears to collect > all AC_ARG_ENABLE text into one group, followed by all the AC_ARG_WITH > options in a separate group. So in 2.13, where my configure --help shows *snip*
> With autoconf 2.59 I get *snip* > I find this rather disturbing because it totally breaks up the logical > grouping of options that we try to create in our scripts. I'm still > reading the autoconf 2.59 document to see if there's a macro to control > this behavior, but in the meantime one fix would be to change libtool's > AC_ARG_WITH invocations into AC_ARG_ENABLE instead. Since the autoconf > behavior appears to reserve AC_ARG_WITH solely for specifying external > packages, instead of for specifying options, this would seem to be the > correct fix. Any thoughts? Well, if you change Libtool's AC_ARG_WITH to AC_ARG_ENABLE, you are breaking compatibility gratitously. Not very nice. (Note that in CVS HEAD these options are broken ATM anyway, but that's a different matter, and orthogonal.) How about an Autoconf option/macro to not sort these? Cheers. Ralf _______________________________________________ http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool
