Documenting 'make config' options

[Warren Block]

On Mon, 11 Jun 2012, Warren Block wrote:

> Here is a patch to do it.
>
> To use, apply patch.  Pick a port and edit the option descriptions to be 
> longer than 49 characters.  Then run 'make config'.
>
> Notes:
>
> This patch only does descriptions for the plain options right now. Changes to 
> the multi and single options would be the same thing.  (Not done because I'm 
> hoping someone better at make(1) will have cleaner
> methods.)
>
> There's a cosmetic problem.  The last description line at the bottom of the 
> screen remains after dialog exits.  I have not found a way to clear it in 
> dialog.

And another note: VIS_WIDTH is set to 49 because that is the size 
available for a description on a standard 80x24 terminal (less one 
column for a "+" indicator).  But it can be dynamically determined with 
dialog --print-maxsize.