Hello,
> > I'd like to know when current option categories
> ("Optional
> > packages:", "Optional Features:", "Some
> influential environment
> > variables", "X features:", ..) have first been
> introduced.
>
> Sorry, I still don't understand why you care.
> Either they're there,
> or they're not. Either way you can find out by
> running "configure
> --help".
Coming to think about it again, it is not strictly
necessary; I was thinking that if I can determine the
associations between autoconf versions and ./configure
--help output formats, I can more cleanly support
different versions and different formats.
> However, if you want to find out the answer for
> yourself, one way is
> to install all versions of Autoconf, use each one of
> them to build
> "configure", and then see what "configure --help"
> outputs. That
> should settle the matter.
will pass on this one.
> Another way (if you have more expertise in Autoconf)
> is to read the
> CVS logs for Autoconf. There's no secret repository
> of Autoconf
> information -- what you see on savannah is all there
> is.
This one looks much better :)
Thanks
Claudio
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