Time for cleanup after identifying two "interesting" issues:

1.) #FreeBSD ports come with a Templates/config.site file which is normally used by #GNU #autoconf, containing quite a lot of "cache variables" so autoconf can avoid running the actual tests. Nice, but completely wrong when targeting #Linux. So, add an empty "CONFIG_SITE=" variable to every linux port, and suddenly I can also remove some explicit cache variables again 🙈

2.) I'm building the "native" toolchain for #Linuxulator --with-sysroot=/compat/linux, which makes sure the linker reliably finds startup files and system libs, without stuff from FreeBSD base interfering. BUT: This completely breaks when some explicit lib path to /usr/lib or /usr/lib64 is added (and many build systems will do that), because sysroot doesn't apply here. Therefore, add wrapper scripts around gcc and g++ filtering out any "-L/usr/lib" or "-L/usr/lib64" argument 🙈 with that, Linux #bash builds without any patches! 🥳

Now, waiting for builds.

Got over it and created an upstream PR for #fvwm3!

Well, I *knew* I would run into some #autotools foo. Can't use #autoconf to substitute @bindir@ in the .desktop file, it expands to ${exec_prefix}/bin (literally) 😜

https://github.com/fvwmorg/fvwm3/pull/876

How can i customize my user-data file for NVME and Normal Disks #partitioning #autoconf

https://askubuntu.com/q/1474549/612

You know how some people that know Java don't put it on their résumé because they don't want to work in Java?

For me, that's #autotools, #autoconf, #automake

PSA: please switch your projects to #Meson

Nice, someone bought the domain configure.ac and setup a mastodon instance on it :)
#autoconf

its that time again when I do rust things

this time i created makegen, and autoconfigurator for GNU makefile

check it out here:
https://github.com/CompeyDev/makegen

#gnu #makefile #rustlang #autoconf

If you design an application that relies on network connectivity. Don't just exclusively rely on #NetworkDiscovery #Autoconf / #Broadcast #multicast
Some of the saner people use #NetworkSegmentation #VLAN #Firewall

Somehow the early morning's #autoconf dance put me into extreme happy mood. #python

I woke up suddenly with a dream that I forgot a password. And now I am reading #autoconf manual.

m1? m2? no thanks, but I'd fancy some m4!!!
#autoconf

m1? m2? no thanks, but I'd love me some m4!!!
#autoconf

I hate autoconf/automake. At least I hate complicated setups. Granted they might not be any better in other tools. #autoconf #automake

@PureData

I spent some time recently cleaning up my #EmPd stuff for compiling #LibPd #Pd #PureData with #Emscripten so you can run audio patches in the #WebBrowser (without pd-gui support, but you can build custom GUIs to make interactive things).

Instructions at
https://mathr.co.uk/empd/

Currently working on trying to support #Gem via Emscripten's #Regal port, but it's frustrating because Gem's `./configure` takes forever and I'm not skilled at #autoconf stuff to know how to fix it when weird things happen.

I heard #PurrData has a browser thing now too, maybe I should see how they do it. Don't know if they have Gem there.

#Autoconf => #Autohell

Au secoure

The comments are priceless
https://askubuntu.com/questions/27677/cannot-find-install-sh-install-sh-or-shtool-in-ac-aux

#GNU #Autoconf: AC_COMPILE_IFELSE can be unsafe as an undefined macro can turn into a valid function call. One may prefer AC_LINK_IFELSE (when applicable) for this reason. Example: https://gforge.inria.fr/scm/viewvc.php/mpfr/trunk/acinclude.m4?r1=12448&r2=12447&pathrev=12448 #autotools #unix