Thanks for tackling this! Autoconf definitely needs a new release.
On Mon, Mar 9, 2020 at 2:23 PM Zack Weinberg wrote:
> It has been eight years since the release of autoconf 2.69, there’s
> been substantial improvements checked into the development trunk since
> then, and the mailing list regul
That does seem like something that could be a good macro.
The autoconf dev team have been sitting runstatedir patches included by
Debian for like 6 years though, so I wouldn't hold my breath for any
releases or any new functionality in the near future.
On Jan 24, 2020 9:32 AM, "Christian Biesinge
So let's say somebody from the community wanted to cut a new Autoconf
release. How would they go about doing it?
On Tue, Mar 5, 2019 at 1:47 PM Bob Friesenhahn
wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Mar 2019, Nicholas Clark wrote:
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> > I don't think anybody wants Autoconf to become aban
A new release would be great - it's very much needed. There are lots of
missing features that distros have to work around with their own custom
patches - 'runstatedir' most notably. These are causing CMake to gain
ground, which maybe isn't great for those of us who love Autotools.
I don't think an
Not saying this is right or wrong, but as an autoconf user - it can be hard
to know what versions support what features. So if I'm autotoolizing a
package, I would probably require whatever version I had at the time.
Are there any tools out there that will scan a configure.ac/Makefile.am and
tell
I'd love to see a release too!!! Getting @runstatedir@ support would be
awesome. It's been in the git repo for 5 years now.
On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 5:53 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Yes, it's well past time for a release. We should have one reasonably soon.
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tatedir
without needing to do some hack.
On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 1:12 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 04/24/2018 01:56 PM, Nicholas Clark wrote:
>
> > The catch is that I can't find Autoconf 2.70 anywhere! 2.69 seems like
> it's
> > the most recent release everywher
I was reading through the GNU Make manual's directory-variable guidelines,
and I noticed that it calls out Autoconf 2.70 as having support for
@runstatedir@ (nominally @localstatedir@/run or /var/run).
For reference, I was looking at:
https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Directory-Va
