Re: hide help string

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Peter,

* Peter Johansson wrote on Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 02:08:42AM CET:
> I wonder if it is possible to have an AC_ARG_WITH with no help
> output. The reason I want something like that is because I wanna
> deprecate my `--with-foo' option and I would prefer if I could hide
> it and yet let configure react to it as before.

Why not
  AC_ARG_WITH([foo], [AS_HELP_STRING([--with-foo], [(deprecated])])
?

> I tried AC_ARG_WITH with an empty second argument, but that resulted
> in an empty line in the help output which I would prefer to get rid
> of (if possible). Does anyone know any trick how that could be
> accomplished?

Cheers,
Ralf