Re: reporting full subdir path for subconfigure

[Paul Eggert]

address@hidden (Karl Berry) writes:

> I'd also like to suggest outputting some kind of marker before each
> "configuring" line, if there's a portable way to do so, so that
> Emacs page commands can do something useful.  (There are thousands
> of lines of output in my case and anything to help navigate is a
> boon.)  I don't really care what, here are three possibilities:
>
> ^L
> configuring ...

I'd rather avoid control-L due to portability hassles.

> --- configuring ...
> === configuring ...

Either of those would be fine with me.

> So maybe a more precise wording is to remove the "in" which is there now:
>
> configuring $ac_dir ($srcdir/$ac_dir)

Yes, that makes sense.