[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] configure: exit after wrong or misspelled options

[D Richard Felker III]

On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 02:02:08AM +0200, Felix Buenemann wrote:
> On Tuesday 30 July 2002 20:16, Arpi wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > > On Tuesday 30 July 2002 10:42, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > > > Hi all!
> > > >
> > > > This trivial patch to configure makes it quit after stumbling over an
> > > > unknown or misspelled option instead of just printing an error message
> > > > and continuing.
> > >
> > > Apllied, this was once added by Nick, so he could use his usual autoconf
> > > configure parm with mplayer's configure X-)
> >
> > hmm. nick may be right, anyway i also disagree :)
> > what about something like --allow-unknown-configure-options ?
> > so Nick and friends could put this into their default configure options,
> > and our configure could _optionaly_ skip unknowns after this one
> >
> > so everyone will be happy at the end :)
> I see no sense in this, even autoconf generate configure scripts don't accept 
> unknown switches (at least not when I once tried to verify).

Yes they do (at least for --enable-*, --disable-*, --with-*, and
--without-*). All autoconf-generated configure scripts have to ignore
such unknown options, so that the abomination known as recursive
configure (and here we thought recursive make was bad enough, eh?) can
work. Bleh.

Rich