Re: MinGw port of gawkextlib

[Andrew J. Schorr]

On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 05:35:24PM +0200, Manuel Collado wrote:
> 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?

Yes -- it should be fully standalone and not require any autotools present on
the system. The distribution packages should be self-contained, except for of
course requiring make and a shell and a C/C++ compiler and the libraries that
it's linking against.

Regards,
Andy