>
> I'm quite happy to remove it which is easy.  Currently
> there's no simple
> replacement in the case of _configure, however, because (#s)
> doesn't get
> tokenized (the `#' didn't need to be, it was always
> recognised, hence the
> need for quoting).  This would require the -s option to
> _arguments to do
> some kind of globsubst thing, which may or may not be
> desirable.  I haven't
> looked for any other uses of this feature.
>

That's because I used wrong syntax in _arguments (_long_options at the
time of writing). This patch gets it right and replaces # with (#s),
that also works. Patch attached.

-andrej