[rrd-developers] [PATCH] cleanup whitespace in configure --help

Tobias Oetiker tobi at oetiker.ch
Thu Nov 13 19:06:38 CET 2008


Today Sebastian Harl wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 04:28:09PM +0100, Bernhard Reutner-Fischer wrote:
> > The helptext was hopping a bit. The attached patchlet aligns the outliers
> > to the commonly used column.
> [...]
> > -  AC_ARG_ENABLE(tcl,[  --enable-tcl-site        install the tcl extension in the tcl tree],
> > +  AC_ARG_ENABLE(tcl,[  --enable-tcl-site       install the tcl extension in the tcl tree],
>
> For that purpose, autoconf provides the macro AS_HELP_STRING (see [1]).
> Bernhard, do you want to give that a try and apply that to the configure
> script?
>
> Or is there a specific reason why this has not been used so far? Tobi?

only my ignorance ... patch welcome!
tobi

>
> Cheers,
> Sebastian
>
> [1] http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf.html#Pretty-Help-Strings
>
>

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