Quoth Julian on Sat, Dec 26, 1998:
> *blink* I am sorry why can't we put those lines in the --help
> output? What is to stop there being a more detailed help document
> associated with its use, which most of the people on this will
> hardly ever need to refer to, but can be there for people beginning
> in the field of exim?
There are too many exim-specific options, and it's just easy to
see the explanation while editing the Makefile.
> Whilst this may well end up being an academic discussion, you appear
> to have biased your opinion of how/what the output from --help
> can/should be.
I just see what the usual output of --help is.
> > Interactive Perl-style Configure scripts are still better than
> > GNU configure, because they check things _before_ asking you
> > about them and giving you the defaults.
>
> Odd you should say that, I always set up the non interactive version
> myself.
I often want to change something.
> Err, I am not actually too concerned with the system dependant
> aspects of exim.
In Exim's configuration scheme, those aspects are hardcoded into
the files in the OS directory. Under GNU configure, they are
detected by compiling small programs and running them.
Ok, enough holy wars on this subject for me... Vi against Emacs,
anyone?
Vadik.
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