Stepan Kasal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> 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,

Create an AC_PRESERVE_OPTION_ORDER macro which restores the old
behavoir?  Then wrap the code Howard's patch removed, in one macro
and the new code in another macro.  One of the macros would expand
to nothing, AC_PRESERVE_OPTION_ORDER would change which one did.

-- 
Hallvard



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