Re: preview installation picky w/ arguments

[Alan S. <at...@ac...>]

Dav...@t-... (David Kastrup) writes:

> For our autoconf/configure specialists: is there a reason why
> configure does not visually barf on unknown options?  

Yep, it's not supposed to.  8^(

(autoconf)Working With External Software

       `configure' scripts do not complain about `--with-PACKAGE'
    options that they do not support.  This behavior permits
    configuring a source tree containing multiple packages with a
    top-level `configure' script when the packages support different
    options, without spurious error messages about options that some
    of the packages support.  An unfortunate side effect is that
    option spelling errors are not diagnosed.  No better approach to
    this problem has been suggested so far.

I don't know any way to change this without deep (and subject to
breakage) hackery.

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