Re: --help message (was: Lots of CFLAGS)

2000-07-07 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Steven" == Steven G Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Steven> I wouldn't mind submitting a patch for that. Sold!

Re: --help message (was: Lots of CFLAGS)

2000-07-06 Thread Steven G. Johnson
Mo DeJong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Steven G. Johnson wrote: >> Because of this, I think it is a good idea to document at least LDFLAGS >> ("-L/somedir/lib") and CPPFLAGS ("-I/somedir/include") in the --help, >> perhaps along with CC/CXX/F77 and CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS/FFLAGS. I wou

Re: --help message (was: Lots of CFLAGS)

2000-07-06 Thread Mo DeJong
On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Steven G. Johnson wrote: > I'd like to chime in with support for documenting a few key environment > variables in --help. > > The single biggest problem I see users having when installing packages ala > autoconf is that they installed a needed library in some random directory

--help message (was: Lots of CFLAGS)

2000-07-06 Thread Steven G. Johnson
I'd like to chime in with support for documenting a few key environment variables in --help. The single biggest problem I see users having when installing packages ala autoconf is that they installed a needed library in some random directory (e.g. if they are not root) and so of course configure