Re: autoreconf: -V is not an alias for --verbose

[Eric Blake]

On 07/27/2011 07:21 AM, Křištof Želechovski wrote:
> { autoreconf -V; }
> autoreconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.68
> Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> License GPLv3+/Autoconf: GNU GPL version 3 or later
> <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>,<http://gnu.org/licenses/exceptions.html>
> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
> There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
>
> Written by David J. MacKenzie and Akim Demaille.
>
> { autoreconf --verbose; }
> autoreconf: `configure.ac' or `configure.in' is required

Thanks for the report, but what you pasted is merely a replay of correct 
behavior, rather than a bug report detailing where you think something 
is inconsistent.  -V has always been an alias for --version, and 
--verbose has always been abbreviated -v, and this is consistent with 
'autoreconf --help' output.

Perhaps you were referring to this recently fixed bug in the manual?
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/autoconf.git/commit/?id=4d2efc4563

If not, then please tell us where you found the misleading information 
that led you to think -V meant --verbose instead of --version, so we can 
fix that documentation bug.

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