Re: Arch specific/multiple Configure.help files?

Rogier Wolff
2001-04-05T21:57:17Z

Erik Mouw wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 07:28:33PM +0200, Johan Adolfsson wrote:
> > Would it be a good idea to have support for multiple Configure.help
> > files in the config system?
> > The main advantage would be that arch specific settings could
> > have an arch specific help file as well.
>
> I don't see why this would be an advantage. IMHO Documentation belongs
> in the Documentation tree and configuration documentation belongs in
> Configure.help. You almost never read that file yourself, only the
> various kernel configure tools read it, and tools don't have a problem
> with large files. It's better to have the documentation at a single
> point, not scattered around in the kernel tree.

Well, the configure help is now "scattered around": The configuration
options are in the "configure.in" files, and hte docs for them are
somewhere else, even if it's in one large file.

I'm not sure if Larry's CML2 has the help for the options near the
options or not, but that's how I'd like it to be if I were designing
the thing from scratch. (a bit like emacs' functions: there too, you
give the help text near the definition of a functions!)

Roger.

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