Re: Autoconf 2.50 - 2.13 problems

2001-08-09 Thread Pavel Roskin
Hi, Renato! > ./configure: line 5110: syntax error near unexpected token `else' > ./configure: line 5110: `else' > > and others... > > Pekka from silc runs autoconf 2.13 and he has no problems at all... is > there some "backward incompatibility" in 2.5 with 2.13? Most likely it's be just a resul

Re: Autoconf 2.52b released

2001-08-09 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Gary" == Gary V Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Gary> Automake has been using libtool --mode=clean for some time, so Gary> it makes sense to be consistent and allow each tool to provide a Gary> cleanup switch of sorts wherever it makes sense... !!! Great!

Re: Autoconf 2.50 - 2.13 problems

2001-08-09 Thread Akim Demaille
| Hi, i got a CVS tree from SILC.org and tryied to configure but i had some | "syntax error"s just like invalidating the syntax below: | | if (foo == bar); then I suppose you meant to write square brackets here, and a single equal sign. | | else | ... | | saying: | | ./configure: line 5110

Autoconf 2.50 - 2.13 problems

2001-08-09 Thread Renato Golin
Hi, i got a CVS tree from SILC.org and tryied to configure but i had some "syntax error"s just like invalidating the syntax below: if (foo == bar); then else ... saying: ./configure: line 5110: syntax error near unexpected token `else' ./configure: line 5110: `else' and others... Pekka fro

Re: AC_LIBTOOL_CXX

2001-08-09 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi Vasek, On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 07:02:57PM +0100, Vaclav Barta wrote: > I really don't like conflating the C and C++ compilers - I guess > practically every C++ compiler is also a C compiler, but it may > very well require explicit switches to force the language (i.e. > Visual C++ compiles *.C

Re: AC_LIBTOOL_CXX

2001-08-09 Thread Vaclav Barta
Ossama Othman wrote: > On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 08:48:07PM +0100, Vaclav Barta wrote: > > Stephen Torri wrote: > > > CC="$CXX" > > > AC_PROG_LIBTOOL > > > AC_LIBTOOL_CXX > > > LIBTOOL="$LIBTOOL --tag=CXX" > > > > > > Are these calls still necessary to make libtool work with > > Well, they sure >se

Re: Autoconf 2.52b released

2001-08-09 Thread Gary V . Vaughan
On Thursday 09 August 2001 11:46 am, Akim Demaille wrote: > > "Ralf" == Ralf Corsepius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Ralf> Am 09 Aug 2001 11:40:06 +0200 schrieb Akim Demaille: > >> > "Ralf" == Ralf Corsepius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Ralf> Though I agree that it would be desirable

Re: Serious breakage in CVS autoconf tree on case-insensitive filesystems

2001-08-09 Thread Tim Van Holder
> | > In fact, I realized that latter on, and changed that, but I suppose > | > the mere presence of Autoconf (now renamed Autom4te) on the CVS repo > | > | Actually, no you didn't - the problem is that it still has files in it > | (otherwise cvs update -dP would have pruned it). > > :-)=) > > Ahe

Re: Autoconf 2.52b released

2001-08-09 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Ralf" == Ralf Corsepius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ralf> Am 09 Aug 2001 11:40:06 +0200 schrieb Akim Demaille: >> > "Ralf" == Ralf Corsepius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Ralf> Though I agree that it would be desirable to let autoconf do Ralf> this cleanup, I fail to see how autoconf

Re: possibly undefined macro: dnl

2001-08-09 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
>>> "Akim" == Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] Akim> Sure. But the hypothesis is `the first files have been more tested Akim> and are less likely to be guilty'. Akim> For instance, it makes no sense to look for an unexpanded AC_TRY_RUN Akim> in autoconf.m4, or an AT_CHECK in

Re: possibly undefined macro: dnl

2001-08-09 Thread Akim Demaille
> "adl" == Alexandre Duret-Lutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: "Akim" == Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: adl> [...] Akim> * Output the actual line where the culprit was found, i.e., not Akim> the _input_ file, but the _output_ file. adl> This would be more helpful, methinks. Ag

Re: Autoconf 2.52b released

2001-08-09 Thread Ralf Corsepius
Am 09 Aug 2001 11:40:06 +0200 schrieb Akim Demaille: > > "Ralf" == Ralf Corsepius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Ralf> Though I agree that it would be desirable to let autoconf do > Ralf> this cleanup, I fail to see how autoconf could do this job. > > I thought several times about the fact

Re: possibly undefined macro: dnl

2001-08-09 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
>>> "Akim" == Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] Akim> * Output the actual line where the culprit was found, i.e., not Akim> the _input_ file, but the _output_ file. This would be more helpful, methinks. Akim> * Look for the culprit token in all the sources in reversed order A

Re: Autoconf 2.52b released

2001-08-09 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Ralf" == Ralf Corsepius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ralf> Though I agree that it would be desirable to let autoconf do Ralf> this cleanup, I fail to see how autoconf could do this job. I thought several times about the fact that some clean up targets should not be handled by the Makefile

Re: possibly undefined macro: dnl

2001-08-09 Thread Akim Demaille
> "adl" == Alexandre Duret-Lutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: adl> Instead, you could grep the generated configure for occurences of adl> dnl and AC_LIBTOOL_CXX, it should be easier to spot the error. There are several issues here I'd like to comment. First of all, this scheme (looking in the

Re: AC_EXEEXT macro problem

2001-08-09 Thread Akim Demaille
| As a workaround (so Python users don't require a CVS or hacked version of | autoconf), you could strip '-g' from CFLAGS on BeOS (as it seems to be that | flag that produces the .xSYM file) in configure.in. | | Index: lib/autoconf/lang.m4 | ==

Re: Serious breakage in CVS autoconf tree on case-insensitive filesystems

2001-08-09 Thread Akim Demaille
| > In fact, I realized that latter on, and changed that, but I suppose | > the mere presence of Autoconf (now renamed Autom4te) on the CVS repo | | Actually, no you didn't - the problem is that it still has files in it | (otherwise cvs update -dP would have pruned it). | | $ cd lib | $ cvs upd

Re: Report of a problem with autoconf-2.52 about divert

2001-08-09 Thread Akim Demaille
| I don't know if it is really a bug or if I misuse autoconf in any | way. Any help will be welcome and thanks for replying (if any) by | using my email (as I said I'am not subscribed to any list). Due to insecure code in Automake. Here is what the Autoconf doc says: New Macros --