On Wed, May 22, 2024 at 10:34:12AM +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: > Hi Thomas, > > On Wed, May 22, 2024 at 03:53:43AM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > I don't use autoheader (though it's present in the fork I've maintained for > > about the past quarter-century). The configure script generates the > > complete > > dlg_config.h without that crutch. Attempting to bypass that will certainly > > lead to unnecessary bug reports. > > I fear it occurred to me late that I should be using autoconf-dickey > instead of the standard autoconf for dialog. Hence my patch makes it > work the "wrong" autoconf and thus runs autoheader. I see how that would > not be necessary with autoconf-dickey. > > > Actually it would be AC_FOREACH, which invokes AH_TEMPLATE > > > > fwiw, CF_CURSES_FUNCS predates that stuff (1997 versus 1999), > > and there are other macros which might use those features. > > Yeah. And if you make dialog work with autoconf-dickey and without > autoheader, then all of this becomes moot anyway. > > Feel free to come up with a different solution as long as we stop > relying on /usr/bin/libtool as that's the component that will go away. > We now have one working solution and I'm happy if that is sufficient to > get the ball rolling for a better solution than mine.
thanks (on my to-do list) -- Thomas E. Dickey <dic...@invisible-island.net> https://invisible-island.net
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