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

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.

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,

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

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