> I still don't see why you think this is a good thing. This violates the > GNU Coding Standards. Most developers are already quite familiar with > the concept of './configure --help' if they want details, without having > to be told that with a no-argument run; and most packages are already > smart enough about doing a sane thing with a default of no arguments. I am learning autotool by autoconfiscating xymon project(see R1). The existing hand-made "configure" script need to ask questions to decide following goals 1. build a local-client that process xymon messages before sending it out. 1.1 this option need to build bind to pcre library. 2. build a centralize client which dump raw system message to server. 2.1 no need to bind to pcre . 3 build a xymon server with depend on more server side software like ldap,rrdtool etc.. this "configure" without command options wouldn't achieve above goals. R1: http://hobbitmon.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/hobbitmon/sandbox/xymon-test/configure.ac?revision=6278&view=markup -- T.J. Yang _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf