From: Duncan Roe <duncan_roe@acslink.net.au>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Autotools support group, forum, mailing list, ???
Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2016 06:55:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161002022110.GA3117@dimstar.local.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0399225a-2817-5528-7cc7-d3f862e010c9@yahoo.com>
On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 06:13:07PM -0400, HiTech HiTouch wrote:
> Please forgive the somewhat off topic, but people who use Autotools and
> Mingw hang here and may be able to point me.
>
> I'm looking for a central place where people ask questions about Autotools
> (autoconf automake, etc.). My google-ing finds (in addition to the manuals)
> only mailing list and blogs, all of which haven't had significant activity
> for years, like 2013, 2007, 2004. I find no BBS systems (forums) in use.
>
> The most questioners seem to be on the various stackexchange communities,
> pick one, pick many.
>
> Where should one go to ask questions, pray tell?
>
>
> PS: I'm trying to build the tool chain for Arduino IDE by cross compiling.
> I am using MinGW 4.9.2 on WIndows XP SP3 32 bit to produce tools that run on
> native win32 (32 bit windows) and produce code for ARM. I've been given the
> avr tool chain package produced using Autotools for my starting point.
>
> PPS: The Autotools anchor,
> https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/autoconf.html, has a bad pointer to
> its mailing list archive. Letting google do the work, there is nothing in
> that last several years for XP, Windows, or win32 save for spam.
>
Hi HiTech,
Have you tried "info Automake" and "info Autoconf" on your installation?
They give you much more information than the man pages - automake even has a
"Hello World" example.
Cheers ... Duncan.
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2016-09-22 22:35 ` HiTech HiTouch
2016-09-23 8:00 ` Alberto Luaces
2016-10-02 6:55 ` Duncan Roe [this message]
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