>>>> "Joachim" == Joachim Schrod
<jschrod(a)acm.org> writes:
Joachim> configure help has not enough information (yet).
SJT> What specifically is missing?
Joachim> -- Categorization of options.
I believe Malcolm has demonstrated a patch to do this but I haven't
had time to review the patch itself.
Joachim> -- Mentioning the domain of enumeration values in the
Joachim> option explanation.
There's some code in the Xft branch to do this somewhat
automatically. I don't know if it works properly with the new
with/enable aliasing, though, and I doubt it's used for anything but
Xft yet.
Joachim> -- Formatting discipline to help parsing by build.el.
That's hard with autoconf 2.59, which has its own way of doing things.
Joachim> -- Maybe also mentioning the type of option values in
Joachim> the message. That is not easy to decipher from the
Joachim> build.el source.
What do you mean by "type"? This is a shell script, they're all
strings, technically.
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