Re: Organization of ltmain.in into sub-files

2021-10-18 Thread Alex Ameen
Gotcha I can contact GNU and handle any merges that are needed based on submitted patches. The bulk of the "effort" was developing a good pattern and forcing the build and support scripts to treat `ltmain.in' as a built target, so honestly merging isn't a major hassle. Thank you for pointing me in

Re: Organization of ltmain.in into sub-files

2021-10-18 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Mon, 18 Oct 2021, Alex Ameen wrote: This sounds great to me, I'd love to lend a hand. I had filled out the form a few weeks ago when I sent in patch for `/usr/bin/file' references, so that might still be sitting in the queue for review. If not, let me know and I can file a new request. T

Re: Organization of ltmain.in into sub-files

2021-10-18 Thread Alex Ameen
This sounds great to me, I'd love to lend a hand. I had filled out the form a few weeks ago when I sent in patch for `/usr/bin/file' references, so that might still be sitting in the queue for review. If not, let me know and I can file a new request. Thank you, -Alex On 10/18/21 8:15 AM, B

Re: Organization of ltmain.in into sub-files

2021-10-18 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sun, 17 Oct 2021, Alex Ameen wrote: I thought I had seen in some TODO notes that other maintainers had been working on reorganizing `ltmain.in', so I wanted to poke my head in and see if there was an existing branch doing this sort of works, or if this was something that anyone thinks would b

Organization of ltmain.in into sub-files

2021-10-17 Thread Alex Ameen
Howdy, I spent a few hours today seeing how reasonable it would be to split the ~9,000 `ltmain.in' script into a collection of smaller `m4sugar' files to make it a bit easier to read/maintain. This began as a way for me to get my feet wet with modifying `ltmain.in', but I was pleasantly surprised