Re: --help should not require --srcdir

[Sam Steingold]

> * Eric Blake <address@hidden> [2011-07-28 10:57:24 -0600]:
>
> On 07/28/2011 10:48 AM, Sam Steingold wrote:
>> this should not happen:
>>
>> $ ./configure --help
>> configure: error: cannot find sources (lispbibl.d) in . or ..
>
> While I agree with your sentiment, I can't reproduce it with this
> amount of information.

how about
/full/path/to/some/configure
or
cp configure /tmp
cd /tmp
./configure

It does not matter that configure is in the current directory.
It could have been copied of linked over from the source tree and
intended to be run by a top-level configure with --srcdir argument.

However, there is no reason for any program to report an error when
given the --help switch, no matter where the program is located.

> Can you provide a minimal configure.ac file that reproduces this
> problem, or even a pointer to the project whose configure.ac is
> causing this failure to see if the bug is in that configure.ac instead
> of in autoconf?

hg clone http://clisp.hg.sourceforge.net:8000/hgroot/clisp/clisp
cd clisp
./configure build-dir
cd build-dir
./configure --help

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