On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 06:13:07PM -0400, HiTech HiTouch wrote: > Please forgive the somewhat off topic, but people who use Autotools and > Mingw hang here and may be able to point me. > > I'm looking for a central place where people ask questions about Autotools > (autoconf automake, etc.). My google-ing finds (in addition to the manuals) > only mailing list and blogs, all of which haven't had significant activity > for years, like 2013, 2007, 2004. I find no BBS systems (forums) in use. > > The most questioners seem to be on the various stackexchange communities, > pick one, pick many. > > Where should one go to ask questions, pray tell? > > > PS: I'm trying to build the tool chain for Arduino IDE by cross compiling. > I am using MinGW 4.9.2 on WIndows XP SP3 32 bit to produce tools that run on > native win32 (32 bit windows) and produce code for ARM. I've been given the > avr tool chain package produced using Autotools for my starting point. > > PPS: The Autotools anchor, > https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/autoconf.html, has a bad pointer to > its mailing list archive. Letting google do the work, there is nothing in > that last several years for XP, Windows, or win32 save for spam. > Hi HiTech,
Have you tried "info Automake" and "info Autoconf" on your installation? They give you much more information than the man pages - automake even has a "Hello World" example. Cheers ... Duncan. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
