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| Matzigkeit on 30 May 1998 12:53:50 -0600) |
| Subject: Re: libtool manual comments |
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| Regarless, it needs to have a light touch on the option |
| namespace, since it forwards any unrecognized options to the |
| underlying compiler. This is so that people can pass arbitrary flags |
| that libtool doesn't know about. |
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| Sorry, I don't follow the logic. |
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| Long-named options are the GNU standard, so every a GNU program should |
| provide a long-named version of every option name. |
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| If you think there is some practical reason why libtool should not support |
| long-named versions of its own options, would you please spell it out? |
| I don't see why it would cause any problem. |
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| RMS> In section 5.3.1 there is a table of environment variable names, |
| RMS> that should be @table @code. Section 12.4 has one too. |
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| Actually, these are not tables, they are lists of `@defvar' blocks. |
| What would you recommend in this situation? |
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| I'd recommend @table @code. We don't use @defvar for environment |
| variables. |
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