PLEASE PLEASE HELP

2001-07-03 Thread R J Kean
PLEASE PLEASE HELP I am a senior and having considerable trouble making ends meet. I live a rural area of Northern Canada and have great trouble heating my house due to the high costs of fuel. I was heating mainly by wood but I can no longer harvest it because my old van cannot be repaired

Re: Autoconf / Automake for generating Cons scripts

2001-07-03 Thread Eric Siegerman
Ok, since nobody else is tackling this... On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 05:00:29PM -0400, Rajesh Vaidheeswarran wrote: > We've received enquiries from a number of cons users regarding the > ability to generate cons scripts automatically using a "./configure"-type > facility. Whatever I say about cons

Autoconf / Automake for generating Cons scripts

2001-07-03 Thread Rajesh Vaidheeswarran
Folks, I would like to introduce myself as the maintainer of GNU Cons - an alternative to Make. We've received enquiries from a number of cons users regarding the ability to generate cons scripts automatically using a "./configure"-type facility. Pardon me if either of these are not the right g

Re: Portable API for writing own macros

2001-07-03 Thread Raja R Harinath
Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> "Andrej" == Andrej Borsenkow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Andrej> Sometimes just the "official" macros, like AC_TRY_COMPILE etc >Andrej> are not enough. 2.50 includes many very insteresting macros >Andrej> (AC_VAR_PUSHDEF/POPDEF, AC_*_IFELSE, m4_* s

RE: AC_SYS_LARGEFILE macro

2001-07-03 Thread Andrej Borsenkow
> > > From: "Andrej Borsenkow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 13:58:35 +0400 > > > > It checks only for specific option for IRIX and _FILE_OFFSET_BITS and > > _LARGE_FILES macros. That is not enough; e.g. on our system: > > > > bor@itsrm2% getconf LFS_CFLAGS > > -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS

Re: Portable API for writing own macros

2001-07-03 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Andrej" == Andrej Borsenkow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Andrej> Sometimes just the "official" macros, like AC_TRY_COMPILE etc Andrej> are not enough. 2.50 includes many very insteresting macros Andrej> (AC_VAR_PUSHDEF/POPDEF, AC_*_IFELSE, m4_* suite to name Andrej> some). What macros can b

Re: autoconf 2.50 generated configure script on os/390

2001-07-03 Thread Akim Demaille
| Hi, | during installation of the newer alpha versions of VIM 6 on an os/390 unix | machine, I noticed that autoconf 2.5 produced a configure script that would | not run under os/390 unix. Bram Moolenaar switched from autoconf 2.13 to | autoconf 2.5 from his VIM 6.0 alpha H to alpha I. Alpha I a

Re: strncasecmp dcl

2001-07-03 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Werner" == Werner LEMBERG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Now, I took some more time to think about it, and here is my >> proposal: when $4 is not given (was introduced in 2.50a, did not >> exist before, so we are free to do whatever we want with it), just >> do what Autoconf always did: me

Re: Bug in Autoconf!?

2001-07-03 Thread Pavel Roskin
Hi, Francois! Please don't send mixed text-html messages to mailing lists. It increases traffic (more that by the factor of 2) and causes inconvenience to the users of text-only mail clients. Please use plain text. > Perhaps I've found a bug. > I've a Debian 2.2 upgradet to unstable on a i386 ma

Bug in Autoconf!?

2001-07-03 Thread Francois Zbinden
Title: Bug in Autoconf!? Hi Perhaps I've found a bug. I've a Debian 2.2 upgradet to unstable on a i386 machine. Autoconf  2.13. While configuring midgard-php4 (a php4 module) i've got the following problem: [..] - checking how to recognise dependant libraries... pass_all checki

Re: bad config.h on Solaris 8

2001-07-03 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Ed" == Ed L Cashin writes: Ed> I've found that saying "test -r" is not reliable on Solaris. Huh? Could you demonstrate clearly the problem? I mean, a small script with surprising results. Or some documentation. Ed> I only get consistent results if I use the full path. Could you