On Wednesday 27 July 2011, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > Hello Křištof. > > On Wednesday 27 July 2011, Křištof Želechovski wrote: > > { autoreconf -V; } > > autoreconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.68 > > Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > > License GPLv3+/Autoconf: GNU GPL version 3 or later > > <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>, > > <http://gnu.org/licenses/exceptions.html> > > This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. > > There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. > > > > Written by David J. MacKenzie and Akim Demaille. > > > > { autoreconf --verbose; } > > autoreconf: `configure.ac' or `configure.in' is required > > > I don't think this is a bug; in fact, I'd expect `-v' (lowercase!) to be an > alias for `--verbose' (as is the case with many GNU coreutils, and also with > third-party tools, such as ssh and python). `-V' should be either rejected > (as is the case with automake and aclocal) or an alias for `--version' (as > is the case with autoconf, autom4te, autoheader and autoreconf). Also, the > autoreconf help screen correctly documents that `-V' (uppercase) is an alias > for `--version', and `-v' (lowercase) is an alias for `--verbose'. > > Regards, > Stefano > Oops, I now see that Eric has already given a better and more complete answer. I suggest you to refer to that in preference to my reply.
Sorry for the noise, Stefano