Re: autoreconf -s

[Akim Demaille]

Tim:

| > You are right, thanks!  What would you do?  Change -s to => -i?
| 
| Easiest would be to change the usage text from
| 
|   -i, --install   copy missing auxiliary files
|   -s, --symlink   instead of copying, install symbolic links
| 
| to
| 
|   -i, --install   copy missing auxiliary files
|   -s, --symlink   create symbolic links to missing auxiliary files

I don't think this makes it really any easier to read :)  I'm
installing this:


Index: ChangeLog
from  Akim Demaille  <address@hidden>

        * bin/autoreconf.in: Clarify that -s is meaningless without -i.
        Reported by Ralf Corsepius.
        * doc/autoconf.texi (autoreconf Invocation): Likewise.

Index: bin/autoreconf.in
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RCS file: /cvsroot/autoconf/autoconf/bin/autoreconf.in,v
retrieving revision 1.103
diff -u -u -r1.103 autoreconf.in
--- bin/autoreconf.in 13 Sep 2002 06:59:56 -0000 1.103
+++ bin/autoreconf.in 26 Sep 2002 12:04:08 -0000
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@
   -d, --debug     don't remove temporary files
   -f, --force     consider all files obsolete
   -i, --install   copy missing auxiliary files
-  -s, --symlink   instead of copying, install symbolic links
+  -s, --symlink   with -i, install symbolic links instead of copies
 
 Library directories:
   -B, --prepend-include=DIR  prepend directory DIR to search path
Index: doc/autoconf.texi
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RCS file: /cvsroot/autoconf/autoconf/doc/autoconf.texi,v
retrieving revision 1.679
diff -u -u -r1.679 autoconf.texi
--- doc/autoconf.texi 26 Sep 2002 11:57:28 -0000 1.679
+++ doc/autoconf.texi 26 Sep 2002 12:04:31 -0000
@@ -1446,11 +1446,13 @@
 @item --install
 @itemx -i
 Copy missing auxiliary files.  This option is similar to the option
address@hidden in @command{automake}.
address@hidden in @command{automake}.  By default, file are
+copied; this can be changed with @option{--symlink}.
 
 @item --symlink
 @itemx -s
-Instead of copying missing auxiliary files, install symbolic links.
+When used with @option{--isntall}, install symbolic links to the missing
+auxiliary files instead of copies.
 
 @item address@hidden
 @itemx -I @var{dir}