I brought this up on this mailing list because I had something available that might address Stephen's specific concern about having difficulty compiling M4. I have no problem with this being included in Toybox, but I would not do the work myself. On the other hand, I am willing to maintain this as a separate package if there is interest. If this is becoming off topic, we can continue the discussion elsewhere.
On 12/19/2014 01:41:58 PM, Rob Landley wrote: > On 12/19/2014 09:59 AM, stephen Turner wrote: > > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > wrote: > > > > sory for ugly Makefile.. m4 ported from OpenBSD (tested with > gcc, > > binutils etc.). > > > > > > so there is no ./configure, and any tweaks or options we want need > to be > > done in the make file manually.... > > > > whats the plans on making this an official linux package with a > > ./configure as i haven't seen any alternative m4 packages available > this > > could be a very in demand item, especially for the musl community. > > Both posix and lsb specify m4, so it is mentioned in the toybox > roadmap. > But I've throw it on the "this is a compiler command" pile, meaning > it > probably belongs in qcc. And it's a separate package that only comes > up > in the linux from scratch build (not the basic bootstrap with gplv2 > gcc). > > That said, it's one of the things like "make" that isn't directly > related to compiling, so if there's interest, my understanding is > it's > not _that_ big. (He says debugging an issue with sed hold space.) > > Rob > _______________________________________________ > Toybox mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.landley.net/listinfo.cgi/toybox-landley.net > _______________________________________________ Toybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.landley.net/listinfo.cgi/toybox-landley.net
