From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Doug Evans <dje@google.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Display configuration details in --help
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 18:53:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83y5dgy4ne.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADPb22R4o4gkQk8oeqGvmWZerVf7gdkw8XOKz9mYxD6ubFPRig@mail.gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 10:54:44 -0700
> From: Doug Evans <dje@google.com>
> Cc: gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
>
> I like the idea, but the implementation imposes a future
> maintenance burden.
Yes, I considered that as well. But I succeeded in convincing myself
that the problem is not that significant, because:
. configuration options change relatively rarely
. it is not a catastrophe if a new option is added that is not
reflected in this output for a while (options that are removed
will cause compilation failures, so that's not a problem)
. a slightly outdated output is much better than nothing at all
> Would it be sufficient to just store the original string somewhere and
> print that?
I thought about that, but the problem is that most options are not
explicitly mentioned on the configure command line, they are
auto-detected by the configury. So if we want to automate this, we
will need some configure-time magic, like create a file with these
options.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-21 18:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-20 17:46 Eli Zaretskii
2013-03-21 18:00 ` Doug Evans
2013-03-21 18:25 ` Pedro Alves
2013-03-21 18:29 ` Joel Brobecker
2013-03-21 18:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-03-21 19:11 ` Joel Brobecker
2013-03-21 20:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-03-21 20:55 ` Joel Brobecker
2013-03-21 21:17 ` Tom Tromey
2013-03-21 22:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-09 19:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-09 19:46 ` Doug Evans
2013-04-09 20:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-09 23:33 ` Doug Evans
2013-04-10 0:12 ` Pedro Alves
2013-04-10 0:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-10 2:51 ` Doug Evans
2013-04-10 4:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-11 2:41 ` Doug Evans
2013-04-11 1:20 ` Tom Tromey
2013-04-11 1:24 ` Pedro Alves
2013-04-11 2:43 ` Tom Tromey
2013-04-12 12:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-12 14:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-12 16:39 ` regroup --help text (was: Re: [PATCH] Display configuration details in --help) Pedro Alves
2013-06-22 11:31 ` regroup --help text " Eli Zaretskii
2013-06-25 19:30 ` Pedro Alves
2013-07-06 7:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-12 20:50 ` [PATCH] Display configuration details in --help Tom Tromey
2013-04-14 14:17 ` Joel Brobecker
2013-04-16 1:34 ` Doug Evans
2013-04-16 9:46 ` regroup --help text Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-17 8:10 ` Doug Evans
2013-04-17 12:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-14 14:16 ` [PATCH] Display configuration details in --help Doug Evans
2013-04-10 0:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-10 3:06 ` Doug Evans
2013-04-10 4:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-03-21 18:53 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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