Re: [PATCH] {maint} distcheck: add support for AM_DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 06/15/2011 09:40 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> On Tuesday 14 June 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 05:33:39PM CEST:

> > I would suggest to at least discourage using this in the documentation.
> ... I agree, and I will make the change soon.  Maybe I can find a couple of
> examples of where the AM_DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS could be useful *and*
> legitimate; which would make my change more meaningful.

DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS is useful in situations when a plain 
"./configure" is not meaningful to a source tree, i.e. when a 
source-tree mandatorily requires some configuration argument.

Ralf