Re: Future plans for Autotools

2021-01-31 Thread Gavin Smith
On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 03:15:47PM -0800, Paul Eggert wrote: > On 1/25/21 2:59 PM, Gavin Smith wrote: > > Does this > > work or does GNU make have other ways of doing this? (It would be > > better if it could be done without communicating via files.) Is there > > any way to set a Makefile variabl

Re: Future plans for Autotools

2021-01-31 Thread Gavin Smith
On Sun, Jan 31, 2021 at 10:14:11PM +, Gavin Smith wrote: > Another issue is how to record the results of tests from a a Makefile. > With autoconf, autoconf variables are recorded with AC_CONFIG_FILES > and AC_CONFIG_HEADERS. Presumably the same would have to be done, > substituting in an outpu