New release anytime soon?

2001-04-16 Thread Eric Lemings
It's been over two years since the last stable release of Autoconf and I see from the ChangeLog in CVS that progress continues. Are there plans for a new release in the coming months? Eric.

Re: autoconf auxdir

2001-04-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 07:48:39PM +0100, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: >On Thursday 12 April 2001 11:13 am, Akim Demaille wrote: >> > "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> Alexandre> On Apr 11, 2001, Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Given that we want to prom

Re: autoconf auxdir

2001-04-16 Thread Gary V . Vaughan
On Thursday 12 April 2001 11:42 am, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > On Apr 12, 2001, Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > aux means nothing and is not portable. auxdir is puke puke puke > > Agreed. I still like AC_CONFIG_SUPDIR better than > AC_CONFIG_CONFIGDIR or AC_CONFIG_CFGDIR. AC_DEFUN(AC

Re: autoconf auxdir

2001-04-16 Thread Gary V . Vaughan
On Thursday 12 April 2001 11:13 am, Akim Demaille wrote: > > "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Alexandre> On Apr 11, 2001, Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Given that we want to promote config/ > > Alexandre> Who's we? > > Well, I for one, and it was s

web pages

2001-04-16 Thread Lars J. Aas
On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 02:00:32PM +0200, Akim Demaille wrote: : Help is wanted on the documentation, and nothing else. OK, I got the www.gnu.org web-pages finally checked out, and I'm willing to do some updating. The repository contains three copies of the same file: index.html autoconf.ht

Re: configuring for Java.

2001-04-16 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Apr 16, 2001, Keith Bostic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has anyone considered doing a package for Java similar to AC_PATH_X? Have a look at the autoconf macro archive, for a start. http://cryp.to/autoconf-archive/ -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red

Re: 2 DJGPP-specific files: in distro or only in DJGPP package

2001-04-16 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Apr 16, 2001, "Lars J. Aas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm against having separate distributions for separate ports, so I'd > prefer it if the necessary info is integrated with the Autoconf trunk. Ditto. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC

Re: 2 DJGPP-specific files: in distro or only in DJGPP package

2001-04-16 Thread Lars J. Aas
On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 05:03:43PM +0200, Tim Van Holder wrote: : I'd like to add a djgpp subdirectory containing 2 files: a : README for the DJGPP port, and a config.site for use on : systems running DJGPP. What do you describe in the README that is specific for DJGPP? : Other files may be adde

Re: configuring for Java.

2001-04-16 Thread Keith Bostic
>> Has anyone considered doing a package for Java similar to AC_PATH_X? >> There are lots of different Java installations out there, and there >> doesn't seem to be any one standard setup. We'd be happy to help put >> something together, if it's likely to make it into a release. > > Consider usin

Re: configuring for Java.

2001-04-16 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Keith Bostic writes: > Has anyone considered doing a package for Java similar to AC_PATH_X? > There are lots of different Java installations out there, and there > doesn't seem to be any one standard setup. We'd be happy to help put > something together, if it's likely to make it into a release.

configuring for Java.

2001-04-16 Thread Keith Bostic
Has anyone considered doing a package for Java similar to AC_PATH_X? There are lots of different Java installations out there, and there doesn't seem to be any one standard setup. We'd be happy to help put something together, if it's likely to make it into a release. Regards, --keith =-=-=-=-=-

2 DJGPP-specific files: in distro or only in DJGPP package

2001-04-16 Thread Tim Van Holder
I'd like to add a djgpp subdirectory containing 2 files: a README for the DJGPP port, and a config.site for use on systems running DJGPP. Other files may be added later. Is it allowed to add these to the official tree, so they end up in the release tarballs, or should these only be part of the DJ

AC_PACKAGE_VERSION left unexpanded

2001-04-16 Thread Pavel Roskin
Hello! The CVS version of GNU Autoconf fails almost all tests. In fact, it cannot even process a trivial AC_INIT AC_OUTPUT It reports two unexpanded macros: configure:1123: error: undefined macro: AC_PACKAGE_VERSION configure:1123: error: undefined macro: AC_PACKAGE_NAME >From looking into ac