Re: MinGw port of gawkextlib

[Manuel Collado]

El 11/05/2022 a las 14:53, Andrew J. Schorr escribió:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 01:18:20PM +0200, Manuel Collado wrote:
> > The first attempt choked on the lack of a recent version of
> > autotools on MinGw.
>
> I'm confused by this. The package tarballs should not require autotools,
> because the configure script and Makefile.in templates have already been
> generated and are inside the tarball. Why is autotools of any version
> needed on MinGW?

I need to verify what exactly was done in the first attempt. The 
configure script is generated by a specific version of Autotools. I 
assume that running configure requires some pieces of the autotools 
machinery, probably the .m4 macros, which must be version compatible 
with the autotools version used to generate configure.

Or is configure fully standalone and do not require anything else?

Regards.
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