PR 34922: fix ./configure --help=recursive
Paolo Bonzini
bonzini@gnu.org
Wed Jan 23 13:27:00 GMT 2008
Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> This makes
> ./configure --help=recursive
>
> work in the toplevel directory. It is a hack as it uses undocumented
> Autoconf variables (ac_subdirs_all) and undocumened diversions
> (PARSE_ARGS). It works with Autoconf 2.59 and current mainline.
>
> Note that, due to a bug in Autoconf 2.59, it will not work outside of
> the source tree or an unconfigured tree; i.e.,
> ../gcc/configure --help=recursive
>
> only works after a prior configure run. This bug has been fixed in
> Autoconf mainline.
>
> I would need somebody to review and apply it for me (to both GCC and
> src).
I'll do it too.
Paolo
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