On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 05:00:53PM +0100, Simon Josefsson wrote:
> Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> >>>>>>"Simon" == Simon Josefsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> >Simon> In older autoconf versions, I often used 'less 
> >config.status' Simon> and cut'n'pasted the cmdline to 
> >./configure to reconfigure a Simon> package. With autoconf 2.5 
> >the cmdline used is available with Simon> ./config.status 
> >--version, but not in a cut'n'paste friendly Simon> format.  Any 
> >chance of including the ./configure cmdline in a Simon> comment 
> >at the start of config.status as before?  (Or make the Simon> 
> >--version output more cut'n'paste friendly.)
> >
> >Am I missing something, you just want to run ./config.status 
> --recheck?
> 
> If I'm on the same machine and if the package had proper make 
> rules to regenerate Makefile etc when needed, yes, but I often 
> find myself compiling the same package on different platforms at 
> the same time and I usually wants to use the same configure 
> params.  Hence my use of 'less config.status' and cut'n'paste.  As 
> I said, not a major issue. :-)

Simon's not the only one.  I, too, have missed that feature.

-S

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