From: Junio C Hamano Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2006 08:21:38 GMT Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 3] Copy description of build configuration variables to configure.ac Message-ID: <7virm7nq7h.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> In-Reply-To: <11523928361444-git-send-email-jnareb@gmail.com> Jakub Narebski writes: > Copy description of build configuration variables from the commentary > in the top Makefile (from 'next' branch) to configure.ac, splitting > them into "autoconf" sections. I do not see much point in this -- they will become out of sync. Eventually when all the --with-* and --enable-* stuff are implemented, you can ask the generated configure what options are supported, so I do not think this would help the end user either. In other words it is strictly for supporting developers. I think you are better off making a list of supported and yet to be supported ones in the comment in configure.ac, and when you want to see if the list got stale over time, grep for '^# Define' from the Makefile and match them up.