Re: configure --help output 'standard'

2005-06-22 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 22 Jun 2005, Stepan Kasal wrote: Hello Claudio. On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 11:13:24PM -0700, Claudio Fontana wrote: track it myself but got lost somewhere between 2.13 or so and 2.49 (are there in-between versions at all? the gnu ftp repository shown none). Actually, I'm surprised to he

Re: configure --help output 'standard'

2005-06-22 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello Claudio. On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 11:13:24PM -0700, Claudio Fontana wrote: > track it myself but got lost somewhere between 2.13 or > so and 2.49 (are there in-between versions at all? the > gnu ftp repository shown none). Actually, I'm surprised to hear about 2.49. I think you can safely l

Re: configure --help output 'standard'

2005-06-14 Thread Claudio Fontana
Hello, > > I'd like to know when current option categories > ("Optional > > packages:", "Optional Features:", "Some > influential environment > > variables", "X features:", ..) have first been > introduced. > > Sorry, I still don't understand why you care. > Either they're there, > or they're no

Re: configure --help output 'standard'

2005-06-14 Thread Paul Eggert
Claudio Fontana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Surely you mean 'configure --help' above? Yes, sorry. > I'd like to know when current option categories ("Optional > packages:", "Optional Features:", "Some influential environment > variables", "X features:", ..) have first been introduced. Sorry,

Re: configure --help output 'standard'

2005-06-14 Thread Claudio Fontana
Hello, --- Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Claudio Fontana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > To be able to know what to expect, I need to know > when > > current output format (categories, options and > > comments) was first introduced in autoconf. > > That is not the Autoconf Way. In

Re: configure --help output 'standard'

2005-06-14 Thread Paul Eggert
Claudio Fontana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > To be able to know what to expect, I need to know when > current output format (categories, options and > comments) was first introduced in autoconf. That is not the Autoconf Way. Instead, I would inspect the output of "autoconf --help" to see whethe

configure --help output 'standard'

2005-06-14 Thread Claudio Fontana
Hello, I have some questions about ./configure --help output. I am using expect to automate detection of supported configure options, and this works well with configure scripts produced with recent versions of autoconf. To be able to know what to expect, I need to know when current output format