[Mplayer-dev-eng] configure & --help option + fix

Christoph H. Lampert gruel at gmx.de
Sat Jul 21 21:31:32 CEST 2001


Am Samstag, 21. Juli 2001 21:21 schrieben Sie:
> Hello pl,
>
> Saturday, July 21, 2001, 6:32:53 PM, you wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > Most configure scripts I've seen tend to search whether there is an
> > -h|-help|--help among all the arguments givent to the script.
> >
> > This small patch fixes the behavior of configure.
>
> I don't see sense in this, why would someone pass help argument among
> other, I alway pass --help alone.

Because people are lazy... If configure does not behave as expected
(e.g.   ./configure --disable-mmx --disable-sse -enable-warpdrive  did not 
work), then you don't type the line again but press <cursor up> to get it 
back. Then you add a  -h at the end instead of making it only option, because 
it's less work than deleting all the options you typed before. 

gruel

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