* bootstrap (--help): Provide some help.

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index ca9381db7ea2df11f6629a82d9c121341bb19666..a8285ddd88002166504e7962e1a2d06bf426c227 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2005-11-20  Eric Blake  <ebb9@byu.net>,
+           Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+       * bootstrap (--help): Provide some help.
+
 2005-11-20  Todd Vierling <tv@netbsd.org>,
            Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.org>
 

diff --git a/bootstrap b/bootstrap
index d3de306878a90a3c6a525011042c55b648aecab3..05ee7bee6e9b0f06d030d9232d6e72cb0c6cc1be 100755 (executable)
--- a/bootstrap
+++ b/bootstrap
@@ -37,6 +37,19 @@ export SHELL
 : ${MAKEINFO=makeinfo}
 : ${WORKING_LIBOBJ_SUPPORT=false}
 
+case $1 in
+--help|-h*)
+  cat <<EOF
+`echo $0 | sed 's,^.*/,,g'`: This script is designed to bootstrap a fresh CVS checkout
+of Libtool.  Useful environment variable settings:
+  reconfdirs='. libltdl'     Do not bootstrap the old test suite.
+  WORKING_LIBOBJ_SUPPORT=:   Declare that you have fixed LIBOBJDIR support
+                             in autoconf (> 2.59) and automake (> 1.9.6).
+EOF
+  exit
+  ;;
+esac
+
 test -f ./configure.ac || {
   echo "bootstrap: can't find ./configure.ac, please rerun from top_srcdir"
   exit 1