Re: [Patch] configure --help message for grub-emu

[Jason Butler]

What if it said "select the host platform [guessed]. To build grub-emu use the 
option --with-platform=emu"

It would just be a little long.

--- On Wed, 7/14/10, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko <address@hidden> 
wrote:

> From: Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: [Patch] configure --help message for grub-emu
> To: address@hidden
> Received: Wednesday, July 14, 2010, 12:31 PM
> On 07/14/2010 05:23 AM, Jason Butler
> wrote:
> > Here is a patch to have configure --help print the
> build instructions for grub-emu
> >
> >   
> I'm fine with the principle. However in your patch the
> syntax of help
> message seems unclear for me. Is it 2 sentences? If it's
> the same
> sentence as the punctuation suggests then it sounds like
> "select the host platform for grub-emu"
> I recommend asking someone with English native language to
> fix this.
> 
> > --- On Tue, 7/13/10, Colin Watson <address@hidden>
> wrote:
> >
> >   
> >> From: Colin Watson <address@hidden>
> >> Subject: Re: configure --help message for
> grub-emu
> >> To: "The development of GNU GRUB" <address@hidden>
> >> Received: Tuesday, July 13, 2010, 2:15 AM
> >> On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 06:59:10PM
> >> -0700, Jason Butler wrote:
> >>     
> >>> I want to alter the configure script so the
> --help
> >>>       
> >> prints the
> >>     
> >>> instructions for building grub-emu. I saw it
> was asked
> >>>       
> >> a couple times
> >>     
> >>> in #grub where to get it. I think this means
> altering
> >>>       
> >> the configure.ac
> >>     
> >>> file but some open source projects generate
> >>>       
> >> configure.ac from a
> >>     
> >>> script.
> >>>       
> >> This is rare; configure.ac is normally a source
> file.
> >>
> >>     
> >>> Is configure.ac the correct file to alter?
> >>>       
> >> Yes.
> >>
> >> -- 
> >> Colin Watson       
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