[V] Re: [PATCH] Make daikon work with Build package

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

>>>>> "Joachim" == Joachim Schrod <jschrod at acm.org> writes:

    Joachim> As far as I have seen, build.el currently has four
    Joachim> regexps, one to identify sections, one to identify the
    Joachim> description of one option, and one for enumeration values
    Joachim> in that description. If one can shoehorn the expansion of
    Joachim> AC_HELP_STRING into that format, it gets parseable for
    Joachim> build.el.

The tail is wagging the dog, here.  The less we mess with the autoconf
code, the better.  I'm not even happy about merging --enable-foo with
--with-foo although that's obviously TheRightThang[tm].

    Joachim> I mean the "type" for the customization interface. There
    Joachim> are some option values that should be represented as
    Joachim> strings (e.g., cc flags), some should be a list of
    Joachim> strings (e.g., --with-package-path), some should be
    Joachim> 1-of-n selections (boolean options, as a selection dialog
    Joachim> with values "auto", "yes", and "no") , some should be
    Joachim> n-of-m selections (as clickboxes, e.g.,
    Joachim> --with-error-checking).

All of this is available in configure.ac.


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