From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7144 invoked by alias); 6 Jan 2008 15:54:34 -0000 Received: (qmail 7134 invoked by uid 22791); 6 Jan 2008 15:54:34 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com (HELO wa-out-1112.google.com) (209.85.146.176) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 15:54:16 +0000 Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id m16so10816225waf.20 for ; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 07:54:15 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.142.131.18 with SMTP id e18mr5703301wfd.147.1199634855136; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 07:54:15 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.142.199.17 with HTTP; Sun, 6 Jan 2008 07:54:15 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2008 14:25:00 -0000 From: NightStrike To: gcc-help Subject: Re: top-level configure options, --help Cc: "Ian Lance Taylor" In-Reply-To: <4780B42E.7D863082@dessent.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <4780B42E.7D863082@dessent.net> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gcc-help-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-help-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2008-01/txt/msg00054.txt.bz2 On 1/6/08, Brian Dessent 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?