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The list of configure options has grown long, and there was next to no organization to it, never mind any indication of which options were interesting to most people. Break it into several sub-sections to provide a bit of structure, and add some introductory text where it seems helpful to point people to particular options. I failed to resist the temptation to do a small amount of word-smithing on some of the option descriptions, too. But mostly this is reorganization and addition of intro text. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/6384.1559917369@sss.pgh.pa.us
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