Re: automake/44: conditional redefinitions (Was: Re: Automake 1.6.3 issue)

2002-10-28 Thread Akim Demaille
| This also works for things like | | foo = mumble | foo = blurgle | | which would be interpreted as | | foo = blurgle | if FALSE | foo = mumble | endif I've always thought this is wrong. I still think we should not support such ``feature'', which is a form of laxism to me, comp

Re: back quotes and double quotes must not be escaped?

2002-11-04 Thread Akim Demaille
| Since upgrading from autoconf 2.54 to 2.54b, automake 1.7.1 gives me tons | of warnings: | | configure.ac:27: warning: back quotes and double quotes must not be escaped in: |$as_me:$LINENO: WARNING: \`$CC' requires \`$lt_cv_prog_cc_shlib' to build shared |libraries | configure.ac:27: warnin

Autoconf 2.54c is relased

2002-11-04 Thread Akim Demaille
ChangeLog 4 Nov 2002 08:47:39 - 1.2092 ** 2002-11-04 Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Version 2.54c. * Makefile.maint (update, cvs-update, po-update, do-po-update): New.

Re: weird flags set by configure

2002-11-05 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Bob" == Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Bob> If you want to change this you can set CXXFLAGS at configure Bob> time. Bob> CFLAGS=-O CXXFLAGS=-O ./configure ./configure CFLAGS=-O CXXFLAGS=-O is better.

Autoconf 2.55 is released!

2002-11-14 Thread Akim Demaille
The Autoconf team -- Akim, Alexandre, Jim, Paul, and Tom -- is happy to annonce the birth of Autoconf 2.55. Download, compile, install, torture, and enjoy! - Why should I upgrade from 2.54? A few bug fixes, improved portability, no known incompatibility with 2.54 and 2.55, forthcoming Gettex

Autoconf 2.56 is released

2002-11-15 Thread Akim Demaille
The Autoconf team -- Akim, Alexandre, Jim, Paul, and Tom -- is happy to annonce the birth of Autoconf 2.56, aka 2.55 with a packaging problem fixed. - Why should I upgrade from 2.54? A few bug fixes, improved portability, no known incompatibility with 2.54 and 2.55, forthcoming Gettext release

Re: Automake and no-gzip-dist

2003-02-20 Thread Akim Demaille
Olaf> Hello automake team, Olaf> I'm using Olaf> AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign 1.5 no-define dist-bzip2]) Olaf> which will create a tar.gz and tar.bz2 dist. How can I prevend Olaf> automake from building the tar.gz dist, since there isn't a Olaf> target like no-gzip-dist. By submitting a patc

Re: ylwrap fails with flex 2.5.4 and prefix

2003-03-13 Thread Akim Demaille
| Hi, | I'm using flex as the lexer, and I'm using flex's | support for prefixes. So when I put a | | %option prefix="dfg_" Use prefix and outfile to please Automake. src/bison/src % fgrep %option scan-gram.l nostromo 9:59 %option debug nodefault noyywrap never-interact

Re: automake & flex's -P option

2003-03-13 Thread Akim Demaille
| Hello. Hi! | I recently converted one of my projects to autoconf 2.57 & automake | 1.7.3. I'm not bothered about portability to systems other than | DJGPP or Linux. In particular I've been using switches that are | particular to flex and bison: those to set the prefix of the lexer | and parser

Re: automake & flex's -P option

2003-03-18 Thread Akim Demaille
Richard> But won't that break the automake rules? They expect the lex Richard> output file to be called $LEX_OUTPUT_ROOT. $LEX_OUTPUT_ROOT Richard> is different on Linux than DJGPP (lex.yy vs. lexyy). If I Richard> use %option outfile and %option prefix, it will work on one Richard> platform,

Re: make -j and touching configure.in, with automake

2003-03-31 Thread Akim Demaille
| > Aharon> Thanks Tom. I'll wait for Akim to reply and/or forward to Andre. | > Aharon> Akim, this happens pretty consistently for me with automake 1.7.3, | > Aharon> autoconf 2.57 and current gawk; just touch configure.in in that dist | > Aharon> and type make. | > | > Hi Aharon, | > | > I

Makefileless AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR

2003-06-02 Thread Akim Demaille
I discovered a nice property of AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR and (CVS) Automake: you can use the Autoconf macro, and not provide a Makefile.am for this directory. The content is properly shipped, everything works fine, and you saved one AC_CONFIG_FILES, one Makefile.am, one SUBDIRS. I don't know if this is

Re: Makefileless AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR

2003-06-02 Thread Akim Demaille
> On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 09:09:23AM +0200, Akim Demaille wrote: >> >> I discovered a nice property of AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR and (CVS) Automake: >> you can use the Autoconf macro, and not provide a Makefile.am for this >> directory. The content is properly shi

Re: tarball checksum/signature targets?

2003-04-25 Thread Akim Demaille
Harlan> Thanks - my goal is to produce some number of checksum files Harlan> (md5, "sum", pgp, gpg, whatever) at the time I produce the Harlan> distribution *balls. Harlan> I'd then "publish" the *balls and checksum files. Harlan> I'm not sure I care about validating this on the user's side

nodist => CLEANFILES, no?

2003-06-24 Thread Akim Demaille
Why wouldn't nodist_ stuff be automatically included into CLEANFILES? I often find myself repeating things because of this.

Re: nodist => CLEANFILES, no?

2003-06-24 Thread Akim Demaille
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 02:02:25PM +0200, Akim Demaille wrote: >> >> Why wouldn't nodist_ stuff be automatically included into CLEANFILES? > I think it would make sense. > http://www.cygwin.com/ml/bug-automake/2002/msg01693.html I would love this. The only

New aclocal happiness message

2003-06-24 Thread Akim Demaille
~/src/tc % make nostromo Err 2 cd . && /bin/sh /home/akim/src/tc/config/missing --run aclocal-1.7a -I config cd . && /bin/sh /home/akim/src/tc/config/missing --run automake-1.7a --foreign /usr/local/bin/m4: config/warning.m4:23: EOF in string autom

Re: nodist => CLEANFILES, no?

2003-06-25 Thread Akim Demaille
> Earnie Boyd wrote: >> Akim Demaille wrote: >> >>> > On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 02:02:25PM +0200, Akim Demaille wrote: >>> >> >> Why wouldn't nodist_ stuff be automatically included into >>> CLEANFILES? >>> >&

Re: nodist => CLEANFILES, no?

2003-06-25 Thread Akim Demaille
>> But how about making automake even smarter? >> 1. AC_CONFIG_FILES etc. are to be DISTCLEANED (aren't they already?) >> 2. nodist_ and target of a rule => CLEAN > What if the file is in both? I have package-config file which is > generated by configure (AC_CONFIG_FILES) and then installed

ICC 7.0 and distcc

2003-06-25 Thread Akim Demaille
| But when I used distcc, all is lost with the -MD flags | | | /tmp % distcc /home/lrde/lrde/usr/bin/icc -Kc++ error.cc -c nostromo 18:58 | | error.cc(2): error: function "foo" has already been defined | | int foo () { return 1;} | | ^ | | | | compilation aborted for /tmp/distcc_106

ICC 7.0 and distcc

2003-06-25 Thread Akim Demaille
I make some progress understanding why I find it hard to use Icc with distcc. I face several problems, some of them might be already known. Currently, I use the following wrapper to make sure Icc understands what .ii is about: /tmp % cat =icc nos

Re: Icc 7.0, distcc, Automake

2003-06-26 Thread Akim Demaille
For the records, I'm using the following script. It results in a correct compilation with Automake, Icc, and Distcc. #! /bin/sh icc=/home/lrde/lrde/usr/bin/icc # ICC needs to be taught that *.ii is C++. # The wonderful news is that: # # % /home/lrde/lrde/usr/bin/icc I-dont-exist # ld: cannot o

Re: icc dependency generation

2003-06-26 Thread Akim Demaille
posed >> to work with? > 7.0 Err, maybe my message went unnoticed, but you might find additional information here too. From: Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Icc 7.0, distcc, Automake To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Automake List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 26 J

Re: distdir.am v1.47

2003-07-05 Thread Akim Demaille
bution: "; \ >> for i in $(DIST_ARCHIVES); do echo $$i; done) | \ >> sed -e '1{h;s/./=/g;p;x}' -e '$${p;x}' > This seems to make my NetBSD sed unhappy... Thoughts? I'm installing the following. Index: ChangeLog from Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PRO

Re: INSTALL_SCRIPT

2003-07-15 Thread Akim Demaille
> On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 08:57, Ralf Corsepius wrote: >> On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 08:25, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: >> I'll try to contact the original reporter, but currently would assume >> this to be a local bug in the package or a miss-understanding by the >> original reporter. > This pro

Autoconf 2.57b released

2003-08-24 Thread Akim Demaille
***** 2003-08-22 Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Version 2.57b. * Makefile.cfg (local-checks-to-skip): New. * Makefile.maint (local-check): Rename as... (local-checks-available): this. (local-check): New. * Makefile.am (EXTRA_D

Re: txinfo trivial failures

2003-08-22 Thread Akim Demaille
t; So I think texi2dvi should be changed to clean texput.log > afterwards (or run tex --help in a temporary directory). I suggest this patch, which includes another one pending for Texinfo. Index: ChangeLog from Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Workaround a TeX bug: --file-lin

Re: Help - I'm going mad!!! /bin/bash: --gnu: command not found

2003-09-09 Thread Akim Demaille
> %% "Dr. David Kirkby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: dk> make[1]: Entering directory `/export/home/davek/atlc/src' dk> cd .. && \ dk> --gnu src/Makefile dk> /bin/bash: --gnu: command not found This mean AUTOMAKE is empty.

Re: Variable substitution in source files

2003-09-15 Thread Akim Demaille
> I have a number of files that need variable substitution, so I do this in > a Makefile.am: > foo: foo.in > @rm -f foo > @sed \ > -e 's,@@perlmoduledir@@,$(libexecdir)/perl,' \ > -e 's,@@swishbindir@@,$(bindir),' \ > -e 's,

Re: Copying vs m4_including macro files

2003-09-24 Thread Akim Demaille
>> The autoconf part of this feature is trivial (I can provide a patch if >> that's useful), but I suspect I'd need to be able to write perl to >> implement the aclocal end :-) > Fortunately, if we consider relative directories as local, we don't > need to look at AC_CONFIG_M4_DIR. Adding t

Re: Copying vs m4_including macro files

2003-09-24 Thread Akim Demaille
> On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 02:19:06PM +0200, Akim Demaille wrote: >> At the origin I was considering that AC_CONFIG_M4_DIR was >> automatically passed to m4 as a -I, so instead of >> m4_include([config/init.m4]) etc. you'd have m4_include([init.m4]). > Isn&#x

Should -i mkdir?

2003-09-25 Thread Akim Demaille
Several projects used config/ without any hand written file in it, thanks to Automake's wonderful ability to ship the files all by itself. But then, often, such projects, when just checked out, or de-tar'ed by hand, don't have a config/. Et soudain, c'est l'accident : ~/src/vampire % autoreconf

Autoconf 2.57d released

2003-09-25 Thread Akim Demaille
NEWS * Major changes in Autoconf 2.57d * Major changes in Autoconf 2.57b Released 2003-08-24, by Akim Demaille. ** Autotest and local.at The optional file local.at is always included in Autotest test suites. ** Warnings The warnings are always issued, including with cached runs. This be

Autoconf 2.57f is released

2003-10-01 Thread Akim Demaille
Released 2003-10-01, by Akim Demaille. * Major changes in Autoconf 2.57e Released 2003-09-29, by Akim Demaille. ** AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS The directory for its first argument is automatically created. For instance, with AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS([src/modules.hh], [...]) $top_builddir/src

Re: Thanks for real good thing!

2003-10-03 Thread Akim Demaille
> Hello, GNU autotools contributors! > Im just ajust my package for realy good building. And I would like to > thank you for realy powerful and useful tool :) This is probably the wrong list: you are probably not referring to the Autotools: Autoconf, Automake, and Libtool. Or else, you're one

Re: Should -i mkdir?

2003-10-03 Thread Akim Demaille
y, I meant "it should be autoreconf". > /if it's used/ I'm installing the following. Thanks. Index: ChangeLog from Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * lib/autom4te.in (Autoreconf-preselections): Trace AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR. * bin/autoreconf.in (autoreconf_cur

Re: GNU Automake 1.7.9 released

2003-11-12 Thread Akim Demaille
>>> "Chuck" == Charles Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Chuck> What is this "Autoconf 2.59" of which you speak? I saw this Chuck> http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2003-11/msg00010.html Chuck> But there does not yet appear to be a tarball available. > I'm using the AUTOCONF-

Re: Current versions of automake and autoconf

2003-11-24 Thread Akim Demaille
> Anyway, back to Dalibor's question: > 2.57 is the last version announced to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 2.58 is the last version available on ftp.gnu.org > 2.59 is the last version (pre-)announced to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Which one is to be considered the last official release? I > understa

Re: RFE: Restricting a package to a particular automake version

2003-11-26 Thread Akim Demaille
> Hi, > With the release of automake-1.8 ahead, a request for enhancement: > automake-1.8 probably will be incompatible to automake-1.7 > Up to now I have encountered 2 incompatiblities: > * The generating info files in $srcdir issue. > * aclocal complaining about underquoting in custom m

Re: RFE: Restricting a package to a particular automake version

2003-11-26 Thread Akim Demaille
> When having several dozens of configure.ac's in source tree and even > more custom aclocal macros, causing 100's of warnings, you may relate > why I don't share your opinion. perl -pi.bak -e 's/(AC_DEFUN\()(\w+\),/$1[$2],g' **/*.{ac,m4} should make it!

Re: automake and i18n

2003-12-08 Thread Akim Demaille
> Hi, > beginning with version 0.13, GNU gettext has full support for Perl > scripts, with libintl-perl (http://search.cpan.org/dist/libintl-perl/) > there is a stable runtime environment for gettext like message > translation in Perl, and with yours truly there is somebody available > that

Re: automake and i18n

2003-12-09 Thread Akim Demaille
> Hi, > Akim Demaille wrote: >> > It is possible to do the internationalization in such a way, that >> > automake would still run without libintl-perl being installed. >> > License problems should not be an issue, libintl-perl is distributed >> >

Re: Current versions of automake and autoconf

2003-12-09 Thread Akim Demaille
> (Answering only for Automake, because I've also been confused by > Akim's last statements about announcements that shouldn't be > considered official.) Sorry about this. I was trying to make a difference bw pre-released on my web site, and really released on GNU site. Maybe that was wrong

Re: about requiring Perl 5.6 in Automake 1.9

2004-02-09 Thread Akim Demaille
> I'm considering dropping support for Perl 5.005 in the future > Automake 1.9, and require at least Perl 5.6. Perl 5.6 will be 4 > years old next month, so it does not sound like asking for the > moon. Actually, why not jumping to something really more recent. Some people will have to upgr

Re: RFC: doc for `Handling Tools that Produce Many Outputs'

2004-02-09 Thread Akim Demaille
> Personally, I positively *like* "witness" - it describes what it is > in a colourful way. For the records, this is the official English word for the same concept in logic. A witness of an existential quantifier \exists x. P(x) is precisely a t such that P(t). So I believe witness is perfect

Python & Automake

2004-02-26 Thread Akim Demaille
Hi! I'm looking for the recommended way to handle Python executables. I've read the current documentation, but it refers only to Python libraries (unless I'm mistaken). Looking for some inspiration, I found this old piece of code from François Pinard, but it's problem completely outdated.

Automatic source filename computation

2004-04-01 Thread Akim Demaille
The fact that Automake infers some source file names from check_PROGRAMS = test-foo is really nice. Nevertheless, it is nice to people who program in C, and less to other languages. Couldn't we look for test-foo.EXT with EXT ranging a well defined series instead of the hard coded `c'? I k

Texi2Text

2004-04-22 Thread Akim Demaille
[Sorry for the delays, I have suffered sysadmin issues.] 1BGDpl-0001aY-Fa-D Are there any plans of texi->text support? The recent very welcome addition of pdf and html targets seem to call for other outputs: plain text, XML and so forth.

.texi.html: Add a touch?

2004-05-25 Thread Akim Demaille
maintain.texi /home/akim/lectures/maintain/maintain.html/index.html: Permission denied make: *** [maintain.html] Erreur 1 so I suggest the following change: Index: ChangeLog from Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * lib/am/texibuild.am (.texi.html): Touch the output to update its

Installing split Texinfo HTML files

2004-05-25 Thread Akim Demaille
Hi! What is the recommended way to install split HTML documentation from Texinfo? It would be nice if Automake had the bit of magic to copy directories, instead of simple files, in this precise. In addition, there is a small catch when the user does it by herself: I had the following in my Mak

Re: .texi.html: Add a touch?

2004-06-17 Thread Akim Demaille
>>> "Akim" == Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > makeinfo does not update timestamps of directories: Is there a problem with this patch?

Re: .texi.html: Add a touch?

2004-06-22 Thread Akim Demaille
>>> "Akim" == Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> "Akim" == Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> makeinfo does not update timestamps of directories: > Is there a problem with this patch? Ping!

Re: Mac OSX vs. VPATH vs. Automake's auto disted files

2004-08-23 Thread Akim Demaille
Le 23 août 04, à 18:58, Paul D. Smith a écrit : %% Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ad> I met a problem on Mac OSX, and diagnosed it as follows. I would not ad> call this a problem in Automake. Probably GNU Make 3.79 is the most ad> likely culprit, but at le

nodist_info_TEXINFOS

2004-09-09 Thread Akim Demaille
How is one expected to request to ship some Texinfo files, but not the info files, as these are to be built? I found nothing in the documentation, and a naive nodist_info_TEXINFOS = assignments.texi tiger.texi does not ship the texi files (of course...). And this, naive also, approach

Shipping generated file from generated generator

2004-10-21 Thread Akim Demaille
Suppose you have a file generated-output that's built from feeding generator with input. generator itself is built from generator.sources. I would like to ship generated-output (hence it's in srcdir), to spare the user the need to build it. I don't know how to do that without using .SECONDARY,

Re: Shipping generated file from generated generator

2004-10-21 Thread Akim Demaille
>>> "Stepan" == Stepan Kasal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello Akim, Hi! > -- > noinst_PROGRAMS = makedoc > bin_PROGRAMS = ginfo infokey > makedoc_SOURCES = makedoc.c > ginfo_SOURCES = echo-area.c echo-area.h ... \ > doc.c funs.h > infokey_SOURCES = infokey.c infokey.h key.c

Re: Shipping generated file from generated generator

2004-10-21 Thread Akim Demaille
Hm, reading more carefully, I see no connection between the generated_sources and what they are used to. I would say your Makefile is missing dependencies, that's why it 'works'. But an update of one of the cmd_sourcs will probably not update the whole set, as it should.

Re: Shipping generated file from generated generator

2004-10-22 Thread Akim Demaille
>>> "Stepan" == Stepan Kasal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I guess the following should fix it: > $(generated_sources): $(makedoc_SOURCES) $(cmd_sources) > make $(AM_MAKEFLAGS) makedoc$(EXEEXT) $(MAKE) > rm -f $(generated_sources) > ./makedoc $(cmd_sources) > This way the

Re: Shipping generated file from generated generator

2004-10-25 Thread Akim Demaille
>>> "adl" == Alexandre Duret-Lutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> "Akim" == Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [...] Akim> I don't know how to do that without using .SECONDARY, Akim> which doesn't appear to be univ

Re: Error because README is missing

2004-12-01 Thread Akim Demaille
>>> "Andreas" == Andreas Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Untested code ahead. > m4_syscmd([test -f build.sh.in])dnl > m4_if(m4_sysval, 0, [AC_CONFIG_FILES(build.sh)]) Bad idea: side effects are incompatible with the (autom4te) cache. If the environment changes but not the sources of con

Re: Error because README is missing

2004-12-02 Thread Akim Demaille
>>> "Paul" == Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > %% Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>>>> "Andreas" == Andreas Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> Untested code ahead. >>> m4_syscmd([test

dist_TESTS

2004-12-02 Thread Akim Demaille
I'd like that!

Re: Error because README is missing

2004-12-02 Thread Akim Demaille
>>> "Paul" == Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > %% Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> I need a way to have a file marked as a config file, but not have >>> configure (or automake) fail if the .in input file doesn't

filename-length-max=99

2004-12-14 Thread Akim Demaille
Why isn't it enabled when using tar-v7?

AM_LDFLAGS vs. maude_la_LDFLAGS

2004-12-22 Thread Akim Demaille
It is my understanding (after having re-read the doc ;) that these flags are exclusive: either one of the two is used. So I have in a Makefile.am of mine: | AM_LDFLAGS = -avoid-version -module -shared | ... | # Override AM_LDFLAGS: this guy must not be a module. | libtcswigpy_la_LDFLAGS = and M

Re: AM_LDFLAGS vs. maude_la_LDFLAGS

2005-01-03 Thread Akim Demaille
>>> "adl" == Alexandre Duret-Lutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Whether using libtcswigpy_la_LDFLAGS in addition to AM_LDFLAGS is > an error I don't know. It is not nice: (i) it is a different semantics than the other variables, and (ii) the more common semantics is more flexible. > OTOH, the

Re: texi2dvi: A more pleasant way to compile

2005-05-30 Thread Akim Demaille
>>> "Karl" == Karl Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [The thread starts in http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2005-05/msg00019.html] > finding the xref files is much easier, > That's a good point. Finding all those aux files has always been a drag. > Still wanna keep the

Re: texi2dvi: A more pleasant way to compile

2005-06-02 Thread Akim Demaille
>>> "adl" == Alexandre Duret-Lutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> "Karl" == Karl Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> So the new work is merely to add *.t2d in .cvsignore (or whatever), and >>> CLEANFILES = *.t2d in Makefile.am, until Automake is updated? > Can we work on an interface that wi

Re: texi2dvi: A more pleasant way to compile

2005-06-02 Thread Akim Demaille
>>> "adl" == Alexandre Duret-Lutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Akim> is there really any point? > It's simple to implement and it's cleaner to use. It also shows a > good example of an interface we would both like to see in many > other tools. Of course you're right. Thanks for keeping me a

Re: AC_PROG_CC

2000-02-16 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Johan" == Johan Rydberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Johan> ... It says that I should run autoupdate (which I have done) to Johan> corrent this, but nothing happens. autoupdate doesn't update Johan> the specified line. What is the exact message? Though this line may have triggered the mes

Re: Single line dependency lists become too long

2000-02-29 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Merijn" == Merijn de Jonge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Merijn> This line is too long for configure to instantiate and the Merijn> result is a truncated line of dependencies. What happens? Do you know where this limitation comes from? Akim

Re: Additional aclocal dir

2000-03-13 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Assar" == Assar Westerlund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Assar> "Gabor Z. Papp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> can I use/define somehow additional aclocal directory, where I can >> put additional m4 files? Assar> Yes, use `aclocal -I dir' where dir is the directory of your Assar> additional

Re: libtool /tmp security

2000-03-15 Thread Akim Demaille
| On Mar 13, 2000, "Gary V. Vaughan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > I would still like to see {auto{conf,make},libtool} use Ralf | > Engelschall's shtool (or a variant of it) to encapsulate the | > portability issues of things like mkdir -p and mkdir -m 700 into a | > single script rather than sc

Re: Additional aclocal dir

2000-03-14 Thread Akim Demaille
>>>>> "Assar" == Assar Westerlund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Assar> Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS = -I dir >> >> which is slighly better, since I don't think autoreconf will >> recogni

Re: libtool /tmp security

2000-03-15 Thread Akim Demaille
>>>>> "Earnie" == Earnie Boyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Earnie> --- Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -8<- >> As for mkdir -m, it seems to me that >> >> (umask 700 && mkdir /tmp/foo) Grmph, 077. >> >>

Re: libtool /tmp security

2000-03-15 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Earnie" == Earnie Boyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Let it be for speed issues, I'm in favor of /tmp via TMPDIR. This Earnie> You missed the point; /tmp isn't portable, it doesn't always Earnie> exist (E.G.: MSDOS or WINDOWS). At least with TMPDIR I can Earnie> set it to be whatever I

Re: m4/missing.m4 in CVS

2000-03-13 Thread Akim Demaille
| On Feb 2, 2000, Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | >>>>>> "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Alexandre> Only CVS autoconf accepts implicitly quotes backticks in | Alexandre> MSGs. But it complains if backtick is

Re: m4/missing.m4 in CVS

2000-03-13 Thread Akim Demaille
>>>>> "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Alexandre> On Mar 13, 2000, Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> And again, I shall emphasize that this little comfort is a myth: >> you *need* to update Automake if you

Re: m4/missing.m4 in CVS

2000-03-13 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Alexandre> I'd really prefer to have a stable release of automake with Alexandre> the many the new features introduced since release 1.4, Alexandre> particularly user-side dependency tracking, before starting Alexandre> to rely on C

Re: Why does Makefile depend on BUILT_SOURCES?

2000-03-17 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Alexandre> Grant Akim write access and we'll quickly get all of Alexandre> automake revamped :-) :) Alexandre> Akim, no offense intended :-) None taken :) Akim

Re: flex -lfl

2000-03-24 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Sascha" == Sascha Ziemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Sascha> One needs -lfl and the other not. Just don't use -lfl at all. It contains a dummy main, which you certainly already have available somewhere else, and a dummy yywrap, which you can write: return 1. Alternatively, use %option

Re: flex -lfl

2000-03-27 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Sascha" == Sascha Ziemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Sascha> - How can I check for flex and bison instead of lex and yacc? Sascha> I use some flex/bison specific features, which would not work Sascha> with lex/yacc. Here's what I do: # I want flex, and only flex AM_PROG_LEX if test "$LE

Re: the appropriate location for depcomp

2000-03-27 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Tom" == Tom Tromey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Tom> So, I'm planning to change the rule to always choose top_srcdir Tom> as the default location (i.e., in the final step). Comments? If you mean for *all* the files, I'm all for it. Amongst the various choices, the best one is most probab

Re: Absolute srcdir

2000-03-27 Thread Akim Demaille
I'm on something comparable in Autoconf. Don't know if it's the same, but I'll keep you informed. Akim

Re: Absolute srcdir

2000-03-27 Thread Akim Demaille
Ralf Corsepius sent me this morning a detailed PR with about the same behavior. I'm highly tempted to consider this a bash bug, unless someone can demonstrate the usefulness of the following feature... /tmp/build % cat /tmp/foo.sh nostromo 19:22 #! /bin/sh ca

Re: Absolute srcdir

2000-03-28 Thread Akim Demaille
| Alexandre Oliva wrote: | > On Mar 27, 2000, Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > | > > I'm highly tempted to consider this a bash bug | > | > So am I. Which `bash' is that? I've just tested 2.04, and it *does* | > present the bug :-( | | # b

Re: Absolute srcdir

2000-03-28 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Ralf" == Ralf Corsepius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ralf> What about this fragment from acgeneral.m4 (~line 4407): Ralf> [[/\\$]]* | ?:[[/\\]]*) INSTALL="$ac_given_INSTALL" ;; Ralf> There, [[/\\$]]* is used instead of [[/\\]]*. For variables which can contain ${prefix} and such.

Re: automake --build-dir

2000-04-03 Thread Akim Demaille
>>>>> "Akim" == Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Akim> CVS Autoconf sticks to Automake 1.4: that's why you find all Akim> those problems. Use 1.4 instead, that's the easier way out. Oops, now I remember you *should* use 1.4, otherwise,

Re: automake --build-dir

2000-04-03 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Erez" == Erez Zadok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > Update: I managed to solve that problem by rerunning automake on >> the .am > files in the autoconf CVS repository. >> >> You must re-run aclocal before automake. Erez> Thanks. Erez> I still, however, seem to have a problem with make

Re: automake --build-dir

2000-04-03 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Alexandre> On Apr 2, 2000, Erez Zadok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Have you tried to make dist in a a build dir that's not srcdir? Alexandre> A long time ago, I installed a patch in autoconf to make it Alexandre> work. I don't kn

[Harlan Stenn ] Re: obsolete AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS in AM_CONFIG_HEADER

2000-04-13 Thread Akim Demaille
This patch is still lacking in the current Automake. Akim This patch seems to work for me to solve the problem of splitting the original AC_OUTPUT(...) into AC_CONFIG_FILES(...) and AC_OUTPUT. It applies just as easily to automake.in . --- /usr/local/gnu/bin/automake Mon Dec 20 00:

patch: AC_CONFIG_HEADERS

2000-04-13 Thread Akim Demaille
This simple patch just changes - if (/A([CM])_CONFIG_HEADER\s*\((.*)\)/ + if (/A([CM])_CONFIG_HEADERS?\s*\((.*)\)/ but there are some trailing spaces which were killed too by whitespace.el. Index: ChangeLog from Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * autom

Patch: init.m4

2000-04-13 Thread Akim Demaille
I've already sent this patch, but it has not been applied yet. Here is an updated version. Akim Index: ChangeLog from Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * m4/init.m4 (AC_PROVIDE_IFELSE): If it is not defined, do it. (AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE): Update

patch: compile

2000-04-13 Thread Akim Demaille
Already sent. Akim Index: ChangeLog from Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * compile: Simplify the use of double quotes in assignments. Index: compile === RCS file: /cvs/automake/au

patch: .yy -> .hh

2000-04-20 Thread Akim Demaille
Index: ChangeLog from Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> foo.yy should generate foo.cc and foo.hh, not foo.h. * automake.in (output_yacc_build_rule): Don't pretend to use a third argument. Transform the generated header's suff

Re: Patch: init.m4

2000-04-20 Thread Akim Demaille
Maybe this patch could be rejected/discussed/applied? | Index: m4/init.m4 | === | RCS file: /cvs/automake/automake/m4/init.m4,v | retrieving revision 1.17 | diff -u -r1.17 init.m4 | --- init.m4 1999/11/23 05:08:42 1.17 | +++ i

Re: patch: .yy -> .hh

2000-04-20 Thread Akim Demaille
Sorry, I sent this mail by accident before I had commented it. Automake has some support for Lex and Yacc files intended for C++, based on .yy, .y++ or even yxx. It generates the corresponding .cc, .c++ and .cxx, but does not apply the same transformation to headers. There is also a couple of

Re: patch: .yy -> .hh

2000-04-20 Thread Akim Demaille
Hm, in fact I did the previous patch because Automake 1.4 created dependencies for .yy.hh, not for .yy.h, so it was wrong somewhere. Since I use .hh when I use .cc, it seemed logical to me that it was the .h which was wrong. But I sent the patch for CVS Automake, and I just discovered that it th

Re: patch: .yy -> .hh

2000-04-21 Thread Akim Demaille
x27;s useful? Akim Index: ChangeLog === RCS file: /cvs/automake/automake/ChangeLog,v retrieving revision 1.864 diff -u -r1.864 ChangeLog --- ChangeLog 2000/04/15 09:13:49 1.864 +++ ChangeLog 2000/04/21 08:28:50 @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +2000-04-21 Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Harlan Stenn ] Re: obsolete AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS in AM_CONFIG_HEADER

2000-04-25 Thread Akim Demaille
In response to Didier in another thread, I don't think this patch was applied. Akim | Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | This patch is still lacking in the current Automake. | | | | Akim | | Thanks. | I'll commit this instead: | | --- automake.in.

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