compile time options

[David Relson]

On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 16:51:18 -0400
Greg Louis <glouis at dynamicro.on.ca> wrote:

> On 20030929 (Mon) at 1406:20 +0200, Boris 'pi' Piwinger wrote:
> > David Relson wrote:
> > 
> > > AFAICT people building bogofilter have been able to figure out the
> > > options.  I can't recall any questions about algorithm being
> > > enabled or disabled. 
> > 
> > Maybe because they had no idea about the question;-)
> > 
> > > Since such questions haven't been asked frequently, the FAQ
> > > doesn't need much info on the subject.  Perhaps a couple of simple
> > > questions like:
> > > 
> > > What different features can be compiled into bogofilter or left
> > > out?
> > 
> > Something like this.
> 
> Surely to goodness ./configure --help does the job?  If it doesn't,
> let's spiffy up (by which I don't at all mean greatly elongate) its
> --help messages rather than create more places for our descriptions to
> get out of date.

We could have the FAQ mention the usefulness of "configure --help". 
Personally, I suspect that those who know how to use configure are
already aware of its help capability.