Re: [patch] remove config.status race condition

2001-02-15 Thread Pavel Roskin
Hello, Lars! > This patch removes a race condition in config.status. Neighter configure nor config.status should be run in the same time in the same directory. Please explain why you have to. > The problem is resolved by moving to a temporary directory during the > problematic tests. I don't r

Re: [patch] don't discard previous config.log before necessary

2001-02-15 Thread Pavel Roskin
Hello, Lars! > * acgeneral.m4 (_AC_INIT_CONFIG_LOG): New macro. > (AC_MESSAGE_LOG_NAME): Contains current logfile name. Use it. > (_AC_INIT_DEFAULT_FDS): Start logging to conf-log.tmp. > (_AC_INIT): Invoke _AC_INIT_CONFIG_LOG after options have > been parsed. I thin

m4_unquote

2001-02-15 Thread Pavel Roskin
Hello! I tried to put some sanity checks to AT_DATA, but finally decided that they are not worth the trouble. However, this macro (m4_unquote) appeared in process and can be useful for somebody. It was hard for me to write it (but it was a great exercize in m4!). I'm not suggesting its inclusion

Re: Akim's on vacation again?

2001-02-15 Thread Pavel Roskin
Hello, Lars! > [lyrics by Bjork, of course] I'd suggest Goethe's "Ueber allen Gipfeln ist Ruh ..." :-) I don't know about Akim, but I'll try to catch up with autoconf-patches tonight. Currently I'm fighting with AT_DATA (actually with m4) to make it more fool-proof, and I don't want to interru

Akim's on vacation again?

2001-02-15 Thread Lars J. Aas
Sh, S It's, oh, so quiet It's, oh, so still You're all alone And so peaceful until... [lyrics by Bjork, of course] So, when's Akim back? My patches are just lingering in my autoconf-box without as much as a single comment... :-( His return seems like my only hope... *sniff* A melanch

Re: Warnings are broken

2001-02-15 Thread Pavel Roskin
Hello, Alexandre! > [[AC_INIT([foo]) > AC_MSG_ERROR([bad \"value\" found]) > AC_OUTPUT([Makefile]) > ]]) > > it took me a while to figure that when I submitted the > AC_CACHE_CHECK test (in my case the resulting testsuite > was just syntaxically invalid). Thanks! If the second argument to AT_DA

RE: a patch for AC_CHECK_PROG bug

2001-02-15 Thread Tim Van Holder
> I stumbled on to this because I had an perl directory. > I know you probably have worked out your own fix and this probably > won't fit with your plans, but c'est la vie. Actually, the problem is that your patch isn't really a fix. The reason the use of -x was introduced, was that that test allo

Re: Warnings are broken

2001-02-15 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
>>> "Pavel" == Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] Pavel> +AT_DATA(configure.ac, Pavel> +[[AC_INIT([foo]) Pavel> +AC_MSG_ERROR([bad \"value\" found]) Pavel> +AC_OUTPUT([Makefile])]]) ^^^ You need to break the line before the closing ]]), as in [[AC_I