From: Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkowitz@cygwin.com>
To: Cygwin Applications <cygwin-apps@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: CI scallywag setup/cygport/autoconf missing autoconf-archive pkg
Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2021 17:37:43 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9e70e23d90edc5888580ecc51257630dc1dd7488.camel@cygwin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9b1ea563-f5c0-04f2-d117-6f792b6cdb94@SystematicSw.ab.ca>
On Wed, 2021-09-29 at 22:15 -0600, Brian Inglis wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> Autotools needs m4 macros in autoreconf-archive to config for gcov and
> other dependencies or build fails with e.g.
>
> "configure.ac:33: error: possibly undefined macro: AX_CODE_COVERAGE
> If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
> See the Autoconf documentation."
>
> CI scallywag setup does not install nor does cygport nor autoconf
> require autoconf-archive so packages have to include in BUILD_REQUIRES.
>
> As autoconf requires: autoconf2.1 autoconf2.5 bash sed, I believe that
> would be the more appropriate place for an autoconf-archive requirement,
> otherwise cygport would have to require it, which is not so obvious.
autoconf-archive would be a build requirement of the package whose
configure.ac references the AX_* macro, not of the autotools themselves.
--
Yaakov
--
Yaakov
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-10-01 21:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-30 4:15 Brian Inglis
2021-10-01 21:37 ` Yaakov Selkowitz [this message]
2021-10-02 0:06 ` Brian Inglis
2021-10-02 4:15 ` Achim Gratz
2021-10-02 5:48 ` Brian Inglis
2021-10-02 14:13 ` Ken Brown
2021-10-02 16:35 ` Brian Inglis
2021-10-03 19:14 ` Brian Inglis
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