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glaucus

autoconf

Prepare

Section titled “Prepare”
  • Depends on m4 and itself
  • Depends on help2man; touch missing .1.t files (-j1 does not work)
  • lto works without patches on glaucus

Configure

Section titled “Configure”
  • Build system automatically sets M4=/usr/bin/m4 and EMACS=no
  • --without-lispdir prevents configure from providing a location to store .elc files (defaults to ${datadir}/emacs/site-lisp)

Check

Section titled “Check”
  • Depends on GNU m4, and perl to run autom4te on tests/wrapper.in
  • Disabled on Alpine
  • Tests 227 and 351 are broken on Adelie and Arch

autoreconf

Section titled “autoreconf”
  • Depends on autopoint from gettext-tiny
  • Runs aclocal, autoconf, automake, autoheader, autopoint and libtoolize in the right order and repeatedly when appropriate
  • It only remakes files that are older than their sources
  • Environment variables AUTOM4TE, AUTOCONF, AUTOHEADER, AUTOMAKE, ACLOCAL, AUTOPOINT, LIBTOOLIZE, M4, and MAKE can be used to override the invocation of autoreconf and the respective tools
  • NOCONFIGURE=yes (or any value) prevents autogen.sh from running ./configure

Other

Section titled “Other”
  • Explicitly specify exec-prefix in glaucus-configure because build systems are awful
  • Explicitly specify --libdir=/usr/lib in glaucus-configure to prevent lib64 contamination

References

Section titled “References”