On 9 Mar 2026, at 19:57, Zack Weinberg <[email protected]> wrote: > I didn’t invent the --exclude option; OpenEmbedded has been carrying a > patch for it for several years. I’d like to ask the original author > of that patch to chime in at this point. Ross, can you remember why > you originally wrote this patch? In particular, do you remember if > you knew that much the same effect could be had by setting e.g. > AUTOPOINT=true in the environment? And, if you did know that, do you > remember why that approach didn’t work for OE?
I don’t believe I wrote it, I can trace it back in vcs history to 2005 when it was imported into a git repository from a bitkeeper where history becomes murky. For example, the migrated history does weird things: rename from aalib/aalib_1.4rc5.bb rename to packages/autoconf/autoconf-2.59/autoreconf-exclude.patch Yeah, I doubt that’s what happened. My hunch is that the non-trivial logic around running aclocal meant just setting ACLOCAL=true didn’t quite do enough, but we’re now officially Before My Time, sorry. Ross IMPORTANT NOTICE: The contents of this email and any attachments are confidential and may also be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to any other person, use it for any purpose, or store or copy the information in any medium. Thank you.
