Re: [RFC] Multi-processor friendly autoconf?

2002-09-27 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 10:51:08AM -0700, Dan Kegel wrote: > Paolo Bonzini wrote: > > Basically, the idea is to change the configure phase into a Makefile > > target, > * can you reduce the number of fork/exec's total? That would also speed > it up. (Not sure what you could do there, just though

Re: [RFC] Multi-processor friendly autoconf?

2002-09-27 Thread Dan Kegel
Paolo Bonzini wrote: > Here is an idea for writing a multiprocessor-friendly autoconf. > Basically, the idea is to change the configure phase into a Makefile > target, and use caching as a way to split it into various sub-targets that > can be executed in parallel. The shell script might run the

Re: defined(IRIX)

2002-09-27 Thread Bill Moseley
At 01:39 PM 09/27/02 +0100, Philip Willoughby wrote: >>There is form, but no content. This can be done using AC_TRY_RUN (or other >>runtime check), is otherwise no better than a random guess. Alignment problems >>don't show up in compiling, but at runtime. > >This code will work providing the co

Re: defined(IRIX)

2002-09-27 Thread Philip Willoughby
Today, Thomas Dickey wrote: >On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 08:58:18AM +0200, Akim Demaille wrote: >> >> | # PGAC_CHECK_ALIGNOF(TYPE, [INCLUDES = DEFAULT-INCLUDES]) >> | # - >> | # Find the alignment requirement of the given type. Define the result >>

[RFC] Multi-processor friendly autoconf?

2002-09-27 Thread Paolo Bonzini
Here is an idea for writing a multiprocessor-friendly autoconf. Basically, the idea is to change the configure phase into a Makefile target, and use caching as a way to split it into various sub-targets that can be executed in parallel. The shell script might run the "sane build" test and then sp

Re: autoreconf invode automake with --no-force (autoconf ver.2.54)

2002-09-27 Thread Nishio Futoshi
At 26 Sep 2002 15:12:10 +0200, Akim Demaille wrote: > This is very bizarre! But I'm lost in your list of actions. Could > you send a small example of touch and cat that yields the problem? Or > a simple tarball in which one must run autoreconf? Thanks! I put tarbal http://www.d3.dion.ne.jp/~f

Re: defined(IRIX)

2002-09-27 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 08:58:18AM +0200, Akim Demaille wrote: > > | # PGAC_CHECK_ALIGNOF(TYPE, [INCLUDES = DEFAULT-INCLUDES]) > | # - > | # Find the alignment requirement of the given type. Define the result > | # as ALIGNOF_TYPE. This macro w

Re: autoreconf invode automake with --no-force (autoconf ver.2.54)

2002-09-27 Thread Akim Demaille
| At Thu, 26 Sep 2002 15:17:19 +0200, | Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: | > This looks like a known bug of Automake 1.5. Is that the | > version you are using? | | I'm using below: | | autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.54 | automake (GNU automake) 1.7 | ltmain.sh (GNU libtool) 1.4.2 Could you provide a t

Re: autoreconf invode automake with --no-force (autoconf ver.2.54)

2002-09-27 Thread Nishio Futoshi
At Thu, 26 Sep 2002 15:17:19 +0200, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: > This looks like a known bug of Automake 1.5. Is that the > version you are using? I'm using below: autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.54 automake (GNU automake) 1.7 ltmain.sh (GNU libtool) 1.4.2 Thanks -- Nishio Futoshi <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: set owner/group on FreeBSD

2002-09-27 Thread Akim Demaille
I'm installing the following patch. Thanks! Index: ChangeLog from Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Some about mv from /tmp. Thanks to Bill Moseley and Paul Eggert. * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_TMPDIR): $2 is the d

Re: Missing template problem

2002-09-27 Thread Akim Demaille
| If I have a AC_DEFINE instead an if statement it is not getting seen by | autoheader. Here is the code: | | AC_DEFUN(BASH_CHECK_GETPW_FUNCS, | [AC_MSG_CHECKING(whether programs are able to redeclare getpw functions) | AC_CACHE_VAL(bash_cv_can_redecl_getpw, | [AC_TRY_COMPILE([#include | #inclu