Re: Is there a way to insert a short pause?

[Steffen Dettmer]

On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 11:38 PM, <address@hidden> wrote:
> ...handle AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS...
>
> I could live with "don't"

I would dislike that because people could start to rely on such
an information (in a few years when all configure scripts are
updated) and would miss the recursive warnings (where the feature
would be most helpful due to the bigger length of output).

I think it should be reliable or not given at all.

> or requiring configure.ac-writer intervention,
> because this tends to cause spurious warnings if the sub-configure has
> fewer options than top level (e.g. configure: WARNING: unrecognized
> options: --with-wx-config, because I'm building 3rd-party sub-libraries
> that don't need wxWidgets, but top level does, and needs the option to
> find it's libraries).

Does this mean recent autoconf versions generate "unrecognized
options" warnings?
I always thought that autoconf does NOT generate such warnings
exactly because of recursive configures? Was this changed?
(in this case this could make usage of AC_SUBDIRS even more
difficult in practice and disencouradge people to use it - but I
really love this feature; good for orthogonality
[package/subpackage independence]).

oki,

Steffen