Hi,
On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 03:23:59AM -0700, Howard Chu wrote:
> >no there is no documented way to change this. I think I could relatively
> >easily design a hack which would merge the two groups again, but there
> >would be no guarantee that the hack won't break with future version.
...
> It seems pretty simple to combine them back; replace HELP_ENABLE/HELP_WITH
> with a single HELP_OPTIONS and the problem is gone.
Yes, merging the two diversions is the hack I had in mind. You can do
something similar from your configure.ac.
> Was there any particular benefit to splitting them apart in the first
> place?
I believe that the authors hoped that the list of options will be more
readable if the huge pile is divided according to type.
I think that if we accepted your patch, other people would complain.
Sorry, I see no straightforward fix,
Stepan
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