PATCH: 3.1.5: Re: BUG? in configure

["Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Dec 14,  9:41pm, Phil Pennock wrote:
} Subject: BUG? in configure
}
} From configure --help we see the option --program-suffix=SUFFIX listed.
} 
} Is it my imagination or is this totally bogus?

It's autogenerated by autoconf.  Arguably this is a bug in autoconf, for
zsh's configure.in doesn't call the macro that makes it useful.

It's trivial to enable it, though:

Index: configure.in
===================================================================
--- configure.in	1998/12/14 17:00:14	1.1.1.4
+++ configure.in	1998/12/15 05:03:50
@@ -45,6 +45,9 @@
 dnl -----------------------------
 dnl CHECKING COMMAND LINE OPTIONS
 dnl -----------------------------
+dnl Handle --program_prefix, --program_suffix, --target, etc.
+AC_ARG_PROGRAM
+
 dnl Do you want to debug zsh?
 undefine([zsh-debug])dnl
 AC_ARG_ENABLE(zsh-debug,

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