Jan, All, On Sunday 13 January 2013 Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On Sunday 2013-01-13 19:59, Yann E. MORIN wrote: > >> Not again. autoreconf has existed for so long, why are people still > >> hand-coding the boilerplate? [--SNIP--] > >How does one autoreconf a 'foreign' package? > > Surely, just that: > AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign]) Aha! :-) Just one small nit left: autoreconf does not grok AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR and does not create it, so aclocal complains. Easily worked around, though. > >> >AC_HEADER_STDC > >> >AC_HEADER_STDBOOL > >> >AC_CHECK_HEADERS([ fcntl.h limits.h locale.h ]) > >> >AC_CHECK_HEADERS([ stdlib.h string.h sys/time.h unistd.h ]) [--SNIP--] > >> All of this seems pointless because you never use the results > >> (HAVE_FCNTL_H, HAVE_LIMITS_H, etc.) [--SNIP--] > >As I see it, the only action we could take is to bail out if any is missing. > >Is this what you meant? > > You could do that, though I would simply direct users to read the compiler > error message. That enhances (hopefully) both their knowledge on compiling, > and reduces the walltime configure runs. OK, sounds reasonable. > If I understood right, kconfig-frontends is supposed to run on non-Linux too, > and I have yet to see a modern platform that's missing any of the stdc > functions like malloc and strchr. Yes, this is reasonable too. I'll do that. Thank you very much! :-) Regards, Yann E. MORIN. -- .-----------------.--------------------.------------------.--------------------. | Yann E. MORIN | Real-Time Embedded | /"\ ASCII RIBBON | Erics' conspiracy: | | +33 662 376 056 | Software Designer | \ / CAMPAIGN | ___ | | +33 223 225 172 `------------.-------: X AGAINST | \e/ There is no | | http://ymorin.is-a-geek.org/ | _/*\_ | / \ HTML MAIL | v conspiracy. | '------------------------------^-------^------------------^--------------------' -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
