Hello,

On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 11:49:00AM -0700, Noah Misch wrote:
> I have no reason to think that interoperability with Cygnus configure matters 
> at
> all.  I haven't met a package under active development that uses it.  Remove
> support for --help=recursive with respect to it, or simply leave it broken.

removed, I committed the attached patch

Have a nice day,
        Stepan
2006-04-06  Stepan Kasal  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

        * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_HELP): Remove the broken support
          for --help from Cygnus `configure.'

Index: lib/autoconf/general.m4
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/autoconf/autoconf/lib/autoconf/general.m4,v
retrieving revision 1.896
diff -u -r1.896 general.m4
--- lib/autoconf/general.m4     5 Apr 2006 22:41:36 -0000       1.896
+++ lib/autoconf/general.m4     6 Apr 2006 11:28:22 -0000
@@ -1061,16 +1061,13 @@
     test -d $ac_dir || continue
     _AC_SRCDIRS(["$ac_dir"])
     cd $ac_dir || { ac_status=$?; continue; }
-    # Check for guested configure; otherwise get Cygnus style configure.
+    # Check for guested configure.
     if test -f $ac_srcdir/configure.gnu; then
       echo &&
       $SHELL $ac_srcdir/configure.gnu  --help=recursive
     elif test -f $ac_srcdir/configure; then
       echo &&
       $SHELL $ac_srcdir/configure  --help=recursive
-    elif test -f $ac_srcdir/configure.in; then
-      echo &&
-      $ac_configure --help
     else
       AC_MSG_WARN([no configuration information is in $ac_dir])
     fi || ac_status=$?

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