Re: proposal - command-line option checking

[Benoit Sigoure]

Quoting Paul Eggert <address@hidden>:

> "Steven G. Johnson" <address@hidden> writes:
>
> >    * Autoconf configure scripts should check their --with and --enable
> > arguments, and exit with an error if the option was not specified in
> > an AC_ARG_ENABLE or AC_ARG_WITH statement
>
> That would run afoul of the GNU coding standards, no?  See
> <http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Configuration.html#Configuration>.
> So if you want this to change for Autoconf, probably the first step is
> to get the GNU coding standards changed.

Alright I understand, however I still think that Steven's idea is good 
and I've
also been bitten by wrong configure options being silently ignored, so 
would it
make sense to add a macro such as AC_ENABLE_STRICT_OPTION_CHECKING or whatever
that would enable the behavior described by Steven (although it slightly
conflicts with the GNU CS)? I'd definitely use such a macro everywhere I can.

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