Re: shouldn't it error?

[Bob Lockie]

On 12/12/03 17:38 Ben Pfaff spoke thusly<br>
> Bob Lockie <address@hidden> writes:
>
>
> > Shouldn't the following give an error about an unknown option
> > "./configure --enable-debu=full"?
>
>
> Actually this is explained in the Autoconf manual:
>
>        `configure' scripts do not complain about
>     `--enable-FEATURE' options that they do not support.  This
>     behavior permits configuring a source tree containing
>     multiple packages with a top-level `configure' script when
>     the packages support different options, without spurious
>     error messages about options that some of the packages
>     support.  An unfortunate side effect is that option spelling
>     errors are not diagnosed.  No better approach to this problem
>     has been suggested so far.

Thanks.
I thought I remembered something else that was similar to a feature that 
errored with a spelling mistake.