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
