Re: [Bug-apl] why no difference between configure --help=short and --help=recursive

[Juergen Sauermann]

Hi Peter,

you are not doing anything wrong.

The different --help variants in the configure script are generated by the autoconf tool itself. Whether they
make a difference or not probably depends on how the macros provided by autoconf are being used by
configure.ac

From an autoconf perspective GNU APL is probably a small project because it produces essentially only one
binary. Therefore the configure options are flat and so is the help for them. I suppose that in a project that
produces, for example, multiple binaries, there might be per binary configure options. But for GNU APL this
is simply not the case.

/// Jürgen

On 04/22/2017 12:17 AM, Peter Teeson wrote:

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