[Mplayer-dev-eng] configure & --help option + fix

[Felix Buenemann]

On Saturday, 21. July 2001 21:31, you wrote:
> Am Samstag, 21. Juli 2001 21:21 schrieben Sie:
> > Hello pl,
> >
> > Saturday, July 21, 2001, 6:32:53 PM, you wrote:
> > > Hi!
> > >
> > > Most configure scripts I've seen tend to search whether there is an
> > > -h|-help|--help among all the arguments givent to the script.
> > >
> > > This small patch fixes the behavior of configure.
> >
> > I don't see sense in this, why would someone pass help argument among
> > other, I alway pass --help alone.
>
> Because people are lazy... If configure does not behave as expected
> (e.g.   ./configure --disable-mmx --disable-sse -enable-warpdrive  did not
> work), then you don't type the line again but press <cursor up> to get it
> back. Then you add a  -h at the end instead of making it only option,
> because it's less work than deleting all the options you typed before.
ok, applied to cvs slightly modified.
>
> gruel
>
-- 
Best Regards,
   Felix

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