Ok, a second attempt, taking into account Jonathan's feedback and proposed updates. The revised macro allows for specified help text. I opted to use a more 'dry' approach to the macro instead of repeating the boilerplate AC_WITH_ARG bits when calling this feature. Additionally, I only WARN when 'yes' or 'no' is passed. Bailing on errors in most cases is reasonable, but I don't think it's globally appropriate. As to why I want this...It's cleaner, in my opinion, to do all build configuration through a single mechanism than to do most with ./configure and the rest with variables passed to make. In other words, this is purely a style issue. I like the extension of config.mak.in to support more of the autoconf variables as well and would like to see it applied. Ben Walton (2): configure: add macro to set arbitrary make variables configure: add settings for gitconfig, editor and pager configure.ac | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 files changed, 43 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html