configure.args

[Charles Darwin]

On 2-Aug-08, at 3:33 PM, Rainer Müller wrote:

> Charles Darwin wrote:
>> `help builtin' for one. These all point to the  same page.
>
> This is enabled by default and works for me.
>
> $ help builtin
> builtin: builtin [shell-builtin [arg ...]]
>    Run a shell builtin.  This is useful when you wish to rename a
>    shell builtin to be a function, but need the functionality of the
>    builtin within the function itself.
>
>> $ man builtin
>> $ man bash
>> $ man history
>> Is `--enable-progcomp' enabled by default too? How can I tell?    
>> [Makefile?]
>
> Yes, it is enabled by default.
>
> Run `sudo port configure bash` and have a look at the file
> '$(port work bash)/bash-3.2/config.h'.
>
> For example for --enable-progcomp there is
> '#define PROGRAMMABLE_COMPLETION 1'. The mapping from --enable-foo  
> to FOO is done in configure.in.
>
> HTH, Rainer
>

It does indeed. Thanks.

Charles