On Tue, 16 Mar 2010, Satish Balay wrote: > On Tue, 16 Mar 2010, Lisandro Dalcin wrote:
> > Ah! An additional little detail... Could you remove a "=" from the > > start banner lines when running ./configure? Or perhaps better make it > > match the banner at the end (i.e, make these ===... lines start and > > end with th"xxx" and fit in a default-width (80 cols) console/xterm )? > > ... > > What is the problem with the startup banner? If you use > --download-package - you will see a bunch of similar boxes with > verbose info from configure. So current scheme is - all the > '=========' stuff is verbose info from configure. > > The final line is instructions to user - hence they have separate > format. 'xxx========xxx' > > I can make some of them 80 colmn - but there are bunch of text that > gets printed that will never fit in 80 cols. [so we never try to > conform to this limit..] Ok - I shrinked most of the dialog boxes to 80 cols - however most text printed by configure will be more than that.. satish
