Re: autoconf option fun

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Nov  7, 2000, Akim Demaille <address@hidden> wrote:

> Yep, I'm in favor of removing all the --a* etc. it makes it uselessly
> ambiguous, and short options are a better means to abbreviate.  And
> trying to support exact abbreviations, as is done in configure, is an
> additional tedious maintenance nightmare.

Agreed.  But beware that this decision goes against the GNU Coding
Standards.

I guess we should have an m4sh (or m4sugar?) macro to expand:

m4_case_longopt([foo])

to

--foo | --fo | --f

and

m4_case_longoptarg([foo])

to

--foo=* | --fo=* | --f=*

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