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 Cheers, Nick
