Re: dont! Re: stdbool macro, take 2

2001-11-09 Thread Guido Draheim
just read through that message reference, bruce, and I do agree of course - I think the real problem with stdint/stdbool and friends is that it is just a nuisiance to make projects be portable to platforms that are not strictly up at '99 or better, and w.r.t. gstdint I can point to the fact that

autoconf 2.5x slowness analysis

2001-11-09 Thread Michael Matz
Hi, First: I'm not subscribed here, so please leave the cc:. I have updated my (linux) distro, which uses autoconf 2.52 (I only used exclusively 2.1x before), and now I were shocked how slow autoconf is. The packages I'm concerned about are KDE ones (obviously ;) ), esp. kdebase. KDE's packages

Re: stamp-h* and make distcheck

2001-11-09 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Ralf" == Ralf Corsepius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ralf> So, on one hand, your recommendation in this particular case Ralf> means voiding one of the features of automake >= 1.5, for me, Ralf> OTOH - "It's only make distcheck" ;) Then another recommendation would be: add include/stamp-h t

Re: stamp-h* and make distcheck

2001-11-09 Thread Ralf Corsepius
Am Don, 2001-11-08 um 17.56 schrieb Akim Demaille: > > "Ralf" == Ralf Corsepius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Ralf> If using AM_CONFIG_HEADERS located in subdirectories, make > Ralf> distcheck breaks because of not correctly handling stamp*-files. > > Ralf> .. make[1]: Leaving directory

Re: Learning Autoconf

2001-11-09 Thread Warren Young
"Ryan T. Sammartino" wrote: > > > You will not find better material than this book to learn about the > > GNU Build System. > > I second that. I went from zero Autotools knowledge to a Zen master > with this book (well... almost :) ). I'll "third" it. I procrastinated learning the autotool

Re: dont! Re: stdbool macro, take 2

2001-11-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[ note: it's always me, Paolo Bonzini, writing from a web account where I cannot set a From header :-( ] > being a person who has been doing some tricky stuff with a generated > file called stdint.h, I would like to oject on generating a stdbool.h > file for a specific reason - installable header