On 2014-01-29 11:07, David Holmes wrote:
Yeah but who reads that part? :) When I do -h I'm looking for a
particular option and just skim through. :) I would have naively
expected the help docs to be more explicit:
--enable-foo Enables foo [default]
--disable-foo Disables foo
but instead they only document the flag that changes the default ie:
--disable-foo Disables foo [enabled]
which is succinct but to me gives a one-sided view of the options :)
I agree, the default help page is not very helpful. We are much caught
in the autoconf system, which is not really designed with usability in
mind. :-( But I am getting irritated on the help text. One day I'll
probably hijack the autoconf system and replace it with a help text of
our own, which omits all irrelevant autoconf yada-yada and present our
options in a clearer way.
/Magnus
