Re: url's in --help output

[Jim Meyering]

Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:
> According to Eric Blake on 1/27/2009 10:08 AM:
>>
>> What do you think of this followup, which makes complete sentences, and
>> consistently brackets URLs inside <>?
>
> Since Jim already changed coreutils to use this proposed style, and I just
> committed a patch to autoconf to use this style, I've gone ahead and
> pushed this patch.

Thanks!
Sorry I missed that.

> Also, if you use autoconf.git (will become autoconf 2.64), and your
> package name argument to AC_INIT starts with 'GNU ', then your built
> './configure --help' will automatically include the URL to your package
> and a pointer to the generic GNU help page.  You will also have access to
> the new configuration variable AC_PACKAGE_URL (if autoconf guessed the
> wrong URL for your GNU package, then you can provide an explicit override).

Good tip.
I've just inserted this comment in coreutils' system.h:

+  /* FIXME 2010: use AC_PACKAGE_URL once we require autoconf-2.64 */
   printf (_("%s home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/%s/>.\n"),
          PACKAGE_NAME, PACKAGE);