FYI: ./bootstrap --help

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Eric,

* Eric Blake wrote on Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 03:34:25AM CET:
> Inspired by GNU coding standards, and by the example of CVS tar,
> I propose patching bootstrap to be a little friendlier.  I didn't know
> what would make a good --version, so that is left for someone else
> to provide.

Yuck.  This script keeps growing.  :-(
But I agree that it's useful info to have.

I have applied the patch below, which conveys more or less the same
information, a bit differently.  Let me know if you have any issues
with this.  (I don't think we need to check $# before using $1.)

Cheers, and thank you,
Ralf

2005-11-20  Eric Blake  <address@hidden>,
            Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden>

        * bootstrap (--help): Provide some help.

Index: bootstrap
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/libtool/libtool/bootstrap,v
retrieving revision 1.72
diff -u -r1.72 bootstrap
--- bootstrap   26 Oct 2005 14:26:35 -0000      1.72
+++ bootstrap   20 Nov 2005 09:12:09 -0000
@@ -37,6 +37,19 @@
 : ${MAKEINFO=makeinfo}
 : ${WORKING_LIBOBJ_SUPPORT=false}
 
+case $1 in
+--help|-h*)
+  cat <<EOF
+`echo $0 | sed 's,^.*/,,g'`: This script is designed to bootstrap a fresh CVS 
checkout
+of Libtool.  Useful environment variable settings:
+  reconfdirs='. libltdl'     Do not bootstrap the old test suite.
+  WORKING_LIBOBJ_SUPPORT=:   Declare that you have fixed LIBOBJDIR support
+                             in autoconf (> 2.59) and automake (> 1.9.6).
+EOF
+  exit
+  ;;
+esac
+
 test -f ./configure.ac || {
   echo "bootstrap: can't find ./configure.ac, please rerun from top_srcdir"
   exit 1