The bug below was reported against version 2.50 of the Debian GNU/Linux package for autoconf. It appears to be in version 2.52 as well.
-------------------- Start of forwarded message -------------------- Subject: Bug#116744: configure --help has incorrectly formatted help Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 01:38:20 -0500 (CDT) From: Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> bash-2.05$ ./configure --help `configure' configures erector-set 0.0.0 to adapt to many kinds of systems. ... Fine tuning of the installation directories: --bindir=DIR user executables [EPREFIX/bin] --sbindir=DIR system admin executables [EPREFIX/sbin] ... --infodir=DIR info documentation [PREFIX/info] --mandir=DIR man documentation [PREFIX/man] Optional Features: --disable-FEATURE do not include FEATURE (same as --enable-FEATURE=no) --enable-FEATURE[=ARG] include FEATURE [ARG=yes] ... Note how the 'Fine tuning' block is not lined up with the rest of the help. -------------------- End of forwarded message --------------------
