Re: recording flags specified to configure scripts

2009-03-10 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Keith, * Keith Marshall wrote on Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 11:49:12AM CET: > On Tuesday 10 March 2009 07:18:26 Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > Undocumented (so watch out when updating Autoconf), but: > >   eval "$ac_configure_args" > > Didn't that get clobbered, in some not so distant past releases?

Re: recording flags specified to configure scripts

2009-03-10 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday 10 March 2009 06:49:12 Keith Marshall wrote: > On Tuesday 10 March 2009 07:18:26 Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > I suppose Autoconf could provide a macro to access this variable > > which we could then document. > > That would be useful. I've used $ac_configure_args, filtered, to pass > to a

Re: recording flags specified to configure scripts

2009-03-10 Thread Keith Marshall
On Tuesday 10 March 2009 07:18:26 Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Undocumented (so watch out when updating Autoconf), but: >   eval "$ac_configure_args" Didn't that get clobbered, in some not so distant past releases? (autoconf-2.60 and 2.61 IIRC; I can't remember if it was fixed in 2.62 or not, but i

Re: recording flags specified to configure scripts

2009-03-10 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday 10 March 2009 03:18:26 Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * Mike Frysinger wrote on Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 08:01:49AM CET: > > i like to record the flags used when running `./configure` to be shown > > when running --version info with programs. > > Undocumented (so watch out when updating Autoconf),

Re: recording flags specified to configure scripts

2009-03-10 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Mike Frysinger wrote on Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 08:01:49AM CET: > i like to record the flags used when running `./configure` to be shown when > running --version info with programs. Undocumented (so watch out when updating Autoconf), but: eval "$ac_configure_args" should provide you with what y