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<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Hi Peter,<br>
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you are not doing anything wrong.<br>
<br>
The different <b>--help</b> variants in the <b>configure</b>
script are generated by the <b>autoconf</b> tool itself. Whether
they<br>
make a difference or not probably depends on how the macros
provided by <b>autoconf</b> are being used by<br>
<b>configure.ac</b><br>
<br>
From an <b>autoconf</b> perspective GNU APL is probably a small
project because it produces essentially only one<br>
binary. Therefore the <b>configure</b> options are flat and so is
the help for them. I suppose that in a project that<br>
produces, for example, multiple binaries, there might be per
binary configure options. But for GNU APL this<br>
is simply not the case.<br>
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/// Jürgen<br>
<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 04/22/2017 12:17 AM, Peter Teeson
wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:D46D8983-4289-462D-91E1-***@icloud.com"
type="cite">
<pre wrap="">Wanting to understand my ./configure options, for SVN 927,
I did ./configure --help, ./configure --help=short, and ./configure --help=recursive.
Captured the output from all 3 and then did a diff on the logs of the short vs the recursive.
There is no difference other than the values of --help.
Did I do something wrong?
Peter
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