Re: [PATCH] Improve execl* functions

On 31/01/25 11:55, Richard Earnshaw (lists) wrote:
> You need to use the vanilla autoconf obtainable from the FSF.  Debian's version contains changes that generate the extra verbage that you are seeing.

Hi,
I tried installing autoconf and automake from sources, see the command 
list attached below, but I'm still getting the same long list of changes 
in newlib/Makefile.in.

However, the first of these changes in the patch is the removal of the line

@HAVE_LIBC_SYS_XTENSA_DIR_TRUE@am__append_64 = libc/sys/xtensa/creat.c 
libc/sys/xtensa/isatty.c libc/sys/xtensa/clibrary_init.c

and I don't have the newlib/libc/sys/xtensa directory. I'm making my 
patch starting from commit

d52d983e5b69457c706c34097a328a7678107b1a
Author: Corinna Vinschen <[email protected]>  2025-01-28 16:50:12
Cygwin: implement posix_close

Is it possible that the directory libc/sys/xtensa got removed, somebody 
did not run autoreconf and thus Makefile.in is in a somewhat 
inconsistent state in the git repository?


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How I installed autoconf & automake

wget https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/autoconf/autoconf-2.69.tar.gz
wget https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/automake/automake-1.15.1.tar.gz
mkdir autobins
PFX=`pwd`/autobins
tar xvf autoconf-2.69.tar.gz
cd autoconf-2.69
./configure --prefix=$PFX
make
make install
cd ..
tar xvf automake-1.15.1.tar.gz
cd automake-1.15.1
./configure --prefix=$PFX
make
make install
cd ..
export PATH=`pwd`/autobins/bin:$PATH