Re: Running autoconf and autoreconf without autotools in the path

2021-07-20 Thread Nick Bowler
On 2021-07-20, Christopher O Cowan wrote: >> On Jul 19, 2021, at 2:05 PM, Christopher O Cowan >> wrote: >> Just curious if there is a feature within autotools to allow me run >> autoconf and similar utilities via an absolute path, without the autotools >> suite commands, in the PATH. Maybe this

Re: Running autoconf and autoreconf without autotools in the path

2021-07-20 Thread Christopher O Cowan
So, looking at closely at the autoconf package, it seems autoreconf and autoheader (both written in perl), have this feature, for one or more of the ENV vars that I would expect. Autoconf on the other hand, seems to only check for AUTO4MATE, a cursory check of aclocal shows it isn’t checking fo

Running autoconf and autoreconf without autotools in the path

2021-07-19 Thread Christopher O Cowan
Just curious if there is a feature within autotools to allow me run autoconf and similar utilities via an absolute path, without the autotools suite commands, in the PATH. Maybe this already exists, and I just haven’t stumbled across it? I am aware, that this probably on enforced by convention