Re: Bug#143536: autoconf: info documentation broken

2002-04-18 Thread Ben Pfaff
Hi. I'm the maintainer for the Debian GNU/Linux package of Autoconf. It looks like the Texinfo manual for Autoconf 2.53 has a node name with a `.' in it. That's not okay, as the Texinfo manual says in section "`@node' Line Requirements": * Unfortunately, you cannot use periods, commas, colo

Remove profiling output files in configure

2002-04-18 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Would it be OK to remove profiling output files (gmon.out, bb.out, any others?) in _AC_RUN_IFELSE? When I want to profile my code I configure with CFLAGS='-pg', so all the test program runs in configure leave garbage lying around. -- Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Autoconf speedup

2002-04-18 Thread Russ Allbery
Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You can't use automake, of course, but this is one of the major reasons > why I don't much like automake. I should clarify this. You can't use automake if you want to still have a makefile per directory (at least as far as I know), because I don't beli

Re: Autoconf speedup

2002-04-18 Thread Russ Allbery
>> "Zdenek" == Zdenek Kabelac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Zdenek> This would create some short simple Makefiles and these would > Zdenek> include one global shared Makefile.inc where all the common > Zdenek> targets & defines would be specified. There's no reason why you need to make all o

What's going on here ? I'm confused.

2002-04-18 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Hi, I've got three problems, which may or may not be related. I'm not sure if it's an automake, autoconf or gtk problem. I've just downloaded and installed the latest automake (1.6.1) and autoconf (2.53) which has not made any improvement (if fact I got a bit further slightly older release

Re: 2.53a m4sh.at:74 failure

2002-04-18 Thread Patrick Welche
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 05:40:25PM +0200, Akim Demaille wrote: > > Heck, it is right! How come I did not see that failure :( > > Try this one. It seems to do the same as before.. Patrick % gmake testsuite ./autom4te --language=autotest -I . suite.at -o testsuite.tmp mv testsuite.tmp testsuit

Re: Autoconf speedup

2002-04-18 Thread Zdenek Kabelac
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 05:35:15PM +0200, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: > > Support for sources in subdirectories is a new feature in > Automake 1.5 and has been improved in Automake 1.6. Please, > report any problem you have with this to (bug-)[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hmm that's nice - unfortunatelly I

Re: 2.53a m4sh.at:74 failure

2002-04-18 Thread Akim Demaille
| On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 04:08:45PM +0200, Akim Demaille wrote: | > Could you please try this patch? Just apply it, and... | > | > cd tests | > make testsuite | > ./testsuite -k lineno | | No luck: | | % cd tests | % gmake testsuite | ./autom4te --language=autotest -I

Re: Autoconf speedup

2002-04-18 Thread Zdenek Kabelac
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 05:19:41PM +0200, Akim Demaille wrote: > > "Zdenek" == Zdenek Kabelac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > So try this: > > perl -pi.bak -e 's/ac_max_sed_lines=48/ac_max_sed_lines=9/' **/configure > Well perl was one of the solutions - but I'd probably have more beli

Re: Autoconf speedup

2002-04-18 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
[Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]] >>> "Zdenek" == Zdenek Kabelac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] Zdenek> automake doesn't allow me to put subdirectory source Zdenek> files into one single makefile Support for sources in subdirectories is a new feature in Automake 1.5 and has been improved in A

Re: 2.53a m4sh.at:74 failure

2002-04-18 Thread Patrick Welche
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 04:08:45PM +0200, Akim Demaille wrote: > Could you please try this patch? Just apply it, and... > > cd tests > make testsuite > ./testsuite -k lineno No luck: % cd tests % gmake testsuite ./autom4te --language=autotest -I . suite.at -o testsuite.

Re: Autoconf speedup

2002-04-18 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Zdenek" == Zdenek Kabelac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Zdenek> I'm of course using config.cache - so that's why I'm complaing Zdenek> about Makefile creation - as the time of makefile processing Zdenek> is aproximately 3 times as big as the whole process of Zdenek> detectecion. That's why

Re: Autoconf speedup

2002-04-18 Thread Zdenek Kabelac
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 05:02:46PM +0200, Akim Demaille wrote: > Zdenek> This would create some short simple Makefiles and these would > Zdenek> include one global shared Makefile.inc where all the common > Zdenek> targets & defines would be specified. > > This would complexify configure for litt

Re: Autoconf speedup

2002-04-18 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Zdenek" == Zdenek Kabelac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Zdenek> Hi I've taken you address for autoconf list as you seems to be Zdenek> an expert in this area (well as a developer you should be) Nope, please write to the lists. Zdenek> I'd like to know if there are any plans to improve the

Re: 2.53a m4sh.at:74 failure

2002-04-18 Thread Akim Demaille
Could you please try this patch? Just apply it, and... cd tests make testsuite ./testsuite -k lineno Thanks! Index: ChangeLog from Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * tests/m4sh.at (LINENO): Skip the test if LINENO cannot be unset. Fixes false failures on Darwin.

Re: 2.53a m4sh.at:74 failure

2002-04-18 Thread Akim Demaille
| In testsuite: | cat >test/test-1.as <<'_ATEOF' | AS_INIT | if false; then | AS_UNSET([LINENO]) | fi | _AS_PREPARE | echo "Line: $LINENO" | grep 'Line: .*LINENO' $[0] >/dev/null || | AS_ERROR([cannot find original script]) | exit 0 | _ATEOF | | | But once run with testsuite -v -x 15 | |