Re: autoconf/configure information sources?

[Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org>]

Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net> writes:

> The reason I asked is that one of the scripts I was looking at called
> configure and only passes 9 options (natural restriction of shell
> variables).

Hmmm... I'd forgotten about that, but that may be a factor of how it
parses things.  You can't directly access $11 on all sh, for instance,
but you can "shift" things in.  Or so my tests indicate.

I've tested configure with bash and

 ./configure --enable-NO_LED_ON_SCREEN --enable-SET_LED
 --enable-BUFFERED_LOG --enable-STEREO --enable-CLIP
 --enable-NOSNDINTER --enable-SERIO_SOUND --enable-NO_CONSOL_SOUND
 --enable-NO_VOL_ONLY --enable-SOUND --enable-LINUX_JOYSTICK
 --enable-REALTIME --enable-JOYMOUSE --enable-USE_CURSORBLOCK
 --enable-SVGA_SPEEDUP --enable-SNAILMETER --enable-COMPILED_PALETTE
 --enable-MONITOR_ASSEMBLER --enable-MONITOR_HINTS
 --enable-MONITOR_BREAK --enable-CRASH_MENU --enable-VERY_SLOW x11

works fine.

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