./configure --help

./configure --help

[Jan Stary]

This is the ./configure --help of the new 14.4.2.
After the obligatory options such as --prefix,
it presents the 'Optional Packages' section.
This offers various additinal audio formats
and output drivers.

I believe it would be an improvement if those two were separated
into, say, 'Aduio Formats', and 'Output Drivers', or at least
regrouped in the output of --help. Specifically,

  --with-sndio=dyn        load sndio dynamically
  --with-coreaudio=dyn    load coreaudio dynamically
  --with-alsa=dyn         load alsa dynamically
  --with-ao=dyn           load ao dynamically
  --with-pulseaudio=dyn   load pulseaudio dynamically
  --with-waveaudio=dyn    load waveaudio dynamically
  --with-oss=dyn          load oss dynamically
  --with-sunaudio=dyn     load sunaudio dynamically

are audio output drivers and you typically want exactly one of them;
now, they are reported inbetween various codecs, of which you
probably want many.

Does this make sense?
Would configure.ac be the right file to edit?

	Jan


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Re: ./configure --help

[Pascal Giard]

On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 2:52 PM, Jan Stary <hans@stare.cz> wrote:
> This is the ./configure --help of the new 14.4.2.
> After the obligatory options such as --prefix,
> it presents the 'Optional Packages' section.
> This offers various additinal audio formats
> and output drivers.
>
> I believe it would be an improvement if those two were separated
> into, say, 'Aduio Formats', and 'Output Drivers', or at least
> regrouped in the output of --help. Specifically,
>
>   --with-sndio=dyn        load sndio dynamically
>   --with-coreaudio=dyn    load coreaudio dynamically
>   --with-alsa=dyn         load alsa dynamically
>   --with-ao=dyn           load ao dynamically
>   --with-pulseaudio=dyn   load pulseaudio dynamically
>   --with-waveaudio=dyn    load waveaudio dynamically
>   --with-oss=dyn          load oss dynamically
>   --with-sunaudio=dyn     load sunaudio dynamically
>
> are audio output drivers and you typically want exactly one of them;
> now, they are reported inbetween various codecs, of which you
> probably want many.
>
> Does this make sense?

Makes very much sense to me.

> Would configure.ac be the right file to edit?

Yes. If you want to see the result of your changes, you can do a
"autoreconf -i" to regenerate the "configure" script.

-Pascal
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