On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 4:57 AM, Josh Heidenreich
wrote:
> Hey,
>
>> I wonder if instead it would be better to special case '--help' in
>> autogen.sh so that if it is detected we don't write it to
>> autogen.lastrun.
>
> That is what the code does if I replace
> system ("./help.sh " . $A
Hey,
> I wonder if instead it would be better to special case '--help' in
> autogen.sh so that if it is detected we don't write it to
> autogen.lastrun.
That is what the code does if I replace
system ("./help.sh " . $ARGV[$pos+1]);
in the above code with
system ("configure --help
Hi Josh,
On Fri, 2012-03-09 at 15:25 +1030, Josh Heidenreich wrote:
> I was doing some compiling yesterday, and noticed that "autogen.sh
> --help" clobbers your autogen.lastrun.
Ah - indeed, there should be an autogen.lastrun.bak these days - but,
yes that's annoying :-)
> My original th
Hey,
I was doing some compiling yesterday, and noticed that "autogen.sh
--help" clobbers your autogen.lastrun.
My original thought was to change the code to fix the bug, but then I
had an idea - make "--help" more useful.
Thus, my idea is to add this to autogen.sh:
my $pos = 0;
for my $arg (@AR
