Re: How to enable configure.ac to generate configure to must take arguments ?

[TJ Yang]

> I still don't see why you think this is a good thing.  This violates the
> GNU Coding Standards.  Most developers are already quite familiar with
> the concept of './configure --help' if they want details, without having
> to be told that with a no-argument run; and most packages are already
> smart enough about doing a sane thing with a default of no arguments.

I am learning autotool by autoconfiscating xymon project(see R1).

The existing hand-made "configure" script need to ask questions to
decide following goals
1. build a local-client that process xymon messages before sending it out.
    1.1 this option need to build bind to pcre library.
2. build a centralize client which dump raw system message to server.
    2.1 no need to bind to pcre .
3  build a xymon server with depend on more server side software like
ldap,rrdtool etc..

this "configure" without command options wouldn't achieve above goals.

R1: 
http://hobbitmon.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/hobbitmon/sandbox/xymon-test/configure.ac?revision=6278&view=markup

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T.J. Yang