From: NightStrike <nightstrike@gmail.com>
To: gcc-help <gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org>
Cc: "Ian Lance Taylor" <iant@google.com>
Subject: Re: top-level configure options, --help
Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2008 14:25:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b609cb3b0801060754x7849ffeasba7419d5a7f30589@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4780B42E.7D863082@dessent.net>
On 1/6/08, Brian Dessent <brian@dessent.net> wrote:
> The real solution is supposed to be --help=recursive which in a normal
> autoconf project runs the --help in the top dir and then the --help of
> each existing subdir's configure. But for whatever reason, this has
> never worked with the src/gcc toplevel configure, which is a shame
> because the number of options that are specific to various subdirs (i.e.
> not listed by the toplevel configure) is quite large. But it's simple
> enough just to tell users to run e.g. gcc/configure --help or
> libstdc++-v3/configure --help or whatever until somebody fixes
> --help=recursive.
Ah, thank you for this. Where is this recursive help documented?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-06 15:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-29 20:47 NightStrike
2008-01-04 2:18 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2008-01-04 6:13 ` NightStrike
2008-01-07 14:14 ` Brian Dessent
2008-01-07 14:25 ` NightStrike [this message]
2008-01-07 22:27 ` Brian Dessent
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