[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: How to enable configure.ac to generate configure to must take argume
From: |
Eric Blake |
Subject: |
Re: How to enable configure.ac to generate configure to must take arguments ? |
Date: |
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:07:04 -0700 |
User-agent: |
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100301 Fedora/3.0.3-1.fc12 Lightning/1.0b1 Thunderbird/3.0.3 |
[please don't top-post on technical lists]
On 03/10/2010 02:39 PM, TJ Yang wrote:
> address@hidden test]$ ./autogen.sh ;./configure
> Preparing the mytest build system...please wait
>
> Found GNU Autoconf version 2.63
> Found GNU Automake version 1.11.1
> Found GNU Libtool version 2.2.6b
>
> Automatically preparing build ... done
>
> The mytest build system is now prepared. To build here, run:
> ./configure
> make
> configure: error: Invalid options, use --help to see good help stuff
I still don't see why you think this is a good thing. This violates the
GNU Coding Standards. Most developers are already quite familiar with
the concept of './configure --help' if they want details, without having
to be told that with a no-argument run; and most packages are already
smart enough about doing a sane thing with a default of no arguments.
--
Eric Blake address@hidden +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
signature.asc
Description: OpenPGP digital signature