Re: macro archive re-launch

2002-01-21 Thread Peter Simons
Alexandre Duret-Lutz writes: Peter> Furthermore, I wrote a formatting engine that will parse the SGML file Peter> to (a) extract the macro as raw m4 file > I whish you could do the converse: keep the raw m4 file as the > source and extract whatever you want from this. Good point. I see two

Re: macro archive re-launch

2002-01-21 Thread Guido Draheim
Es schrieb Dan Kegel: > > Guido Draheim wrote: > > > > overkill. > > Agreed. I'm tempted to say: > Death to XML, long live *plain* text! > it's not quite xml that's bugging me - it's that the intelligence needed to form a good html view is put on the creator of the macro. Simon(s) says, that

Re: Auto update of config.[guess|sub]

2002-01-21 Thread Tom Tromey
> "juhp" == Jens Petersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: juhp> Is it going to happen soon? How about for autoconf-2.53 and juhp> automake-1.6? Not automake 1.6. We're hoping to release that relatively soon. Tom

Re: Auto update of config.[guess|sub]

2002-01-21 Thread Jens Petersen
Tom Tromey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is a historical artifact. The functionality was introduced by > automake at a time when autoconf was unmaintained. I think migrating > this stuff (plus aclocal, as has been discussed many times previously) > into autoconf would be a good goal. Yes,

Re: Auto update of config.[guess|sub]

2002-01-21 Thread Tom Tromey
> "John" == John D Burger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: John> I understand that the autotools are, increasingly, designed to John> be used together, but autoconf is extremely useful all by John> itself. Thus it sees odd to me that automatic installation of John> config.guess and friends is sup

Re: make check error in autoconf v2.52f

2002-01-21 Thread John Poltorak
On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 03:37:13PM +0100, Akim Demaille wrote: > | Don't know if this is what you might expect... > > It is (but the broken comment). You are on your own: for some reason, > someone is not found. You have to find who. It is because of OS/2, > not Autoconf. Try adding -x a bit

Re: Autoconf support for VxWorks.

2002-01-21 Thread povey
On Mon, 21 Jan 2002 15:03:17 +0100, "Fredriksson, Johan" wrote: >Do I need to change the rules in autoconf.m4f and acspecific.m4 to get >autoconf to support VxWorks. I have a package that I've built on Cygwin and >Sun-Solaris, now I need to build it on VxWorks. > Hi Johan, I did this recently

Re: Auto update of config.[guess|sub]

2002-01-21 Thread John D. Burger
Hello - I find it unsettling to have duplicate (at best) versions of things like config.guess, config.sub, and install-sh in multiple CVS archives, so I would like to have my "make dist" copy them in, preferably using the autotools. As far as I can tell, however, achieving this seems to presuppo

Re: macro archive re-launch

2002-01-21 Thread Dan Kegel
Guido Draheim wrote: > > overkill. Agreed. I'm tempted to say: Death to XML, long live *plain* text! - Dan

RE: Check if AC_SYS_LARGEFILE is actually provided

2002-01-21 Thread Sam Liddicott
Well! The answer is: ifdef([AC_SYS_LARGEFILE],[],[ ])dnl Which I tried before but failed miserably, who knows why, but it worked today. Sam

Check if AC_SYS_LARGEFILE is actually provided

2002-01-21 Thread Sam Liddicott
It's nice to be able to put AC_SYS_LARGEFILE in the configure.in and have largefile support enabled automatically. Unless of course the builder has an earlier version of autoconf installed. In which case it would be nice not to have the undefined macros error. It would be even nice to be able

Re: Autoconf support for VxWorks.

2002-01-21 Thread Guido Draheim
Es schrieb "Fredriksson, Johan": > > Do I need to change the rules in autoconf.m4f and acspecific.m4 to get > autoconf to support VxWorks. I have a package that I've built on Cygwin and > Sun-Solaris, now I need to build it on VxWorks. > > If I need to do this where do I get Information about it

Re: Autoconf support for VxWorks.

2002-01-21 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Johan" == Johan Fredriksson writes: Johan> Do I need to change the rules in autoconf.m4f and acspecific.m4 Johan> to get autoconf to support VxWorks. I have a package that I've Johan> built on Cygwin and Sun-Solaris, now I need to build it on Johan> VxWorks. Probably. Johan> If I need t

Re: make check error in autoconf v2.52f

2002-01-21 Thread Akim Demaille
| On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 02:46:40PM +0100, Akim Demaille wrote: | > | > | This is the single error I get when building and installing autoconf | > | v2.52f on OS/2:- | > | | > | Making check in tests | > | make[1]: Entering directory `/workdir/autoconf-2.52f/tests' | > | make check-local | >

Re: make check error in autoconf v2.52f

2002-01-21 Thread John Poltorak
On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 02:46:40PM +0100, Akim Demaille wrote: > > | This is the single error I get when building and installing autoconf > | v2.52f on OS/2:- > | > | Making check in tests > | make[1]: Entering directory `/workdir/autoconf-2.52f/tests' > | make check-local > | make[2]: Enterin

Re: nit about ./config.status

2002-01-21 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Akim" == Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Simon" == Simon Josefsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Simon> Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Me> Am I missing something, you just want to run ./config.status Me> --recheck? Simon> If I'm on the same machine and if the pa

Autoconf support for VxWorks.

2002-01-21 Thread Fredriksson, Johan
Do I need to change the rules in autoconf.m4f and acspecific.m4 to get autoconf to support VxWorks. I have a package that I've built on Cygwin and Sun-Solaris, now I need to build it on VxWorks. If I need to do this where do I get Information about it? The autoconf manual don't bring me much info

Re: make check error in autoconf v2.52f

2002-01-21 Thread Akim Demaille
| This is the single error I get when building and installing autoconf | v2.52f on OS/2:- | | Making check in tests | make[1]: Entering directory `/workdir/autoconf-2.52f/tests' | make check-local | make[2]: Entering directory `/workdir/autoconf-2.52f/tests' | ./autom4te --language=autotest -I

Re: AC_LANG and _AC_LANG_ABBREV

2002-01-21 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Travis" == Travis Shirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Travis> Actually, the call looks more like this: Travis> ifelse(AC_LANG,C,AC_REQUIRE([MY_PROG_CC])) Travis> MY_PROG_CC is a wrapper around AC_PROG_CC (the former calls Travis> the latter after doing a bunch of other stuff). Where I use

Re: make check error in autoconf v2.52f

2002-01-21 Thread John Poltorak
On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 11:41:23AM +0100, Akim Demaille wrote: > > "John" == John Poltorak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > John> This is the single error I get when building and installing > John> autoconf v2.52f on OS/2:- > > John> Making check in tests make[1]: Entering directory > John> `

Re: nit about ./config.status

2002-01-21 Thread Simon Josefsson
On Sun, 20 Jan 2002, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > You could use 'head config.log' for this purpose, which gives you > something like: > > """ > [...] > It was created by GNU Autoconf configure 2.52g, which was > generated by GNU Autoconf 2.52g. Invocation command line was > > $ ./configure --pr

Re: make check error in autoconf v2.52f

2002-01-21 Thread Akim Demaille
> "John" == John Poltorak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: John> This is the single error I get when building and installing John> autoconf v2.52f on OS/2:- John> Making check in tests make[1]: Entering directory John> `/workdir/autoconf-2.52f/tests' make check-local make[2]: John> Entering direc

Re: macro archive re-launch

2002-01-21 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
>>> "Peter" == Peter Simons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] Peter> Furthermore, I wrote a formatting engine that will parse the SGML file Peter> to (a) extract the macro as raw m4 file I whish you could do the converse: keep the raw m4 file as the source and extract whatever you want from