Re: autoreconf: -V is not an alias for --verbose

[Stefano Lattarini]

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