Re: aclocal's past and future home (was Re: Best practise for aclocal paths in cross builds)

2024-12-17 Thread Ross Burton
On 17 Dec 2024, at 18:23, Zack Weinberg wrote: > The other thing that comes to mind is, if there were anyone working > seriously on usage of autoconf *without* automake, that would make > the move a lot more valuable. I know some people have tried that in > the past but I don't think any of them

Re: Best practise for aclocal paths in cross builds

2024-12-17 Thread Nick Bowler
Hi Ross, Adding the automake list, because (mostly for historical reasons) aclocal is actually part of automake, not autoconf. On 2024-12-17 11:01, Ross Burton wrote: > I’m trying to clean up our autoconf invocation and want to do things > the “right” way. > > We’re in a cross environment with s

aclocal's past and future home (was Re: Best practise for aclocal paths in cross builds)

2024-12-17 Thread Zack Weinberg
On Tue, Dec 17, 2024, at 12:24 PM, Ross Burton wrote: > On 17 Dec 2024, at 17:17, Nick Bowler wrote: >> Adding the automake list, because (mostly for historical reasons) >> aclocal is actually part of automake, not autoconf. > > I’ve been using autotools for too many years and I _still_ forget wha

Best practise for aclocal paths in cross builds

2024-12-17 Thread Ross Burton
Hi, I’m trying to clean up our autoconf invocation and want to do things the “right” way. We’re in a cross environment with split native/target sysroots which makes things interesting, as this means there are two places which I consider the “system ac directories”, the target and the native.

Re: Best practise for aclocal paths in cross builds

2024-12-17 Thread Ross Burton
On 17 Dec 2024, at 17:17, Nick Bowler wrote: > Adding the automake list, because (mostly for historical reasons) > aclocal is actually part of automake, not autoconf. I’ve been using autotools for too many years and I _still_ forget what tool is where… Though considering what it does, it really