Hi Thomas, On Wed, May 22, 2024 at 03:53:43AM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: > I don't use autoheader (though it's present in the fork I've maintained for > about the past quarter-century). The configure script generates the complete > dlg_config.h without that crutch. Attempting to bypass that will certainly > lead to unnecessary bug reports.
I fear it occurred to me late that I should be using autoconf-dickey instead of the standard autoconf for dialog. Hence my patch makes it work the "wrong" autoconf and thus runs autoheader. I see how that would not be necessary with autoconf-dickey. > Actually it would be AC_FOREACH, which invokes AH_TEMPLATE > > fwiw, CF_CURSES_FUNCS predates that stuff (1997 versus 1999), > and there are other macros which might use those features. Yeah. And if you make dialog work with autoconf-dickey and without autoheader, then all of this becomes moot anyway. Feel free to come up with a different solution as long as we stop relying on /usr/bin/libtool as that's the component that will go away. We now have one working solution and I'm happy if that is sufficient to get the ball rolling for a better solution than mine. Helmut
