Re: Please test autoreconf from zack/autoreconf-exclude branch

On Wed, Mar 04, 2026 at 06:51:18PM -0500, Nick Bowler wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 03, 2026 at 12:20:32PM -0500, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> > The last thing I want to squeeze into autoconf 2.73 is a new autoreconf
> > feature, an option --exclude that can be used to tell autoreconf not to
> > run particular tools even if its heuristics say they are necessary.  We
> > had a lot of problems in the past few cycles with autoreconf running
> > auxiliary tools when people didn't want it to, so I'm hoping this
> > provides a self-help option for future issues along those lines.
> 
> Why implement a new option for this, instead of using the existing
> environment variables which have been supported by autoreconf since
> 2001?
> 
> For example, to skip running autoheader, you can just do:
> 
>   AUTOHEADER=: autoreconf

I guess it has to be AUTOHEADER=true but you get the idea.

Cheers,
  Nick