On 24 Jan 2022 08:47, Zack Weinberg wrote: > On Sun, Jan 23, 2022, at 3:06 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > can we merge the various xxx_FOR_BUILD autoconf-archives into autoconf ? > > https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf-archive/ax_prog_cc_for_build.html > > https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf-archive/ax_prog_cxx_for_build.html > > > > would be nice to have official names for these in autoconf itself as we > > could then leverage those in automake. > > I support this but I don't have time to work on it myself. Merging these > macros into autoconf would open up a number of possibilities for making them > work _better_ and having other macros work better in cross compilation. thanks, first question was whether we could move forward at all, or whether we'd get hung up on bikeshedding a perfect design first. i can take care of migrating those macros ... author is Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@xxxxxxx>, so i assume license/copyright shouldn't be an issue, but let's loop him in just in case. -mike
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