Better description of the --enable-gnuregex configure option from

Reuben Farrelly

diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index e121d5dc1c651a26ddd386248150f53ece445866..77d36476888055dfffd8c845041ae0dbf89ffb50 100644 (file)
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ dnl  Configuration input file for Squid
 dnl
 dnl  Duane Wessels, wessels@nlanr.net, February 1996 (autoconf v2.9)
 dnl
-dnl  $Id: configure.in,v 1.373 2005/04/23 20:40:50 serassio Exp $
+dnl  $Id: configure.in,v 1.374 2005/04/25 12:03:34 serassio Exp $
 dnl
 dnl
 dnl
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([src/main.cc])
 AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR(cfgaux)
 AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(squid, 3.0-PRE3-CVS)
 AM_CONFIG_HEADER(include/autoconf.h)
-AC_REVISION($Revision: 1.373 $)dnl
+AC_REVISION($Revision: 1.374 $)dnl
 AC_PREFIX_DEFAULT(/usr/local/squid)
 AM_MAINTAINER_MODE
 
@@ -239,7 +239,11 @@ AC_SUBST(LIBDLMALLOC)
 AC_SUBST(LIB_MALLOC)
 
 AC_ARG_ENABLE(gnuregex,
-[  --enable-gnuregex       Compile GNUregex],
+[  --enable-gnuregex       Compile GNUregex.  Unless you have reason to use this
+                            option, you should not enable it.  This library file
+                            is usually only required on Windows and very old
+                            Unix boxes which do not have their own regex library
+                            built in.],
 [USE_GNUREGEX=$enableval])
 
 SquidInline="yes"