On Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 06:30:48PM +0100, Jérémie Courrèges-Anglas wrote: > "Anthony J. Bentley" <anth...@anjbe.name> writes: > > > Hi, > > Hi, > > > The GNU Autoconf Archive is a collection of more than 500 macros for GNU > > Autoconf that have been contributed as free software by friendly supporters > > of the cause from all over the Internet. > > > > I've encountered software in the wild (not yet in ports) that uses some > > of the C++11 macros. > > > > ok? > > If we install those macros in share/aclocal, then they will be available > directly via autoreconf and friends, right? I'm not sure whether it is > desirable, it's a lot of code and autotools are already ugly enough... > Do you know of other OSes which packages those macros in a directly > reachable directory? What about installing them in another dir? > > Maybe I'm being paranoid here, *shrug*.
Precedent here is that we should wait until there is actual need. Like, when you have software in the wild that moves to ports, then this will be the time to consider this.
