On Sep 4, 2015, at 1:45 PM, Warren Young wrote:
>
> I’m referring to the fact that with embedded tarballs, you can’t call
> AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS()
By the way, the how-to of conditional AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS() is a FAQ. One set of
answers is here:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15230696/
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On Sep 4, 2015, at 12:46 PM, Sébastien Hinderer wrote:
>
> Warren Young (2015/09/04 12:27 -0600):
>
>> If you’re using libraries that are also not yet ubiquitous, the
>> alternative to providing the sub-packages with the main package is to
>> add a hard-fail autoconf test for them.
>
> You mean
> So, is there a way to have all these macros that detect the OCaml-related
> tools integrated to the autoconf distribution?
Yes.
Are there any more software developers who would like to contribute
their macros to the GNU Autoconf Archive so that more programming languages
can be directly support
Hello Warren,
Many thanks for providing all these useul comments.
Warren Young (2015/09/04 12:27 -0600):
> Left unsaid in Eric’s answer is that this change in distribution
> philosophy happened *because* capable versions started appearing
> everywhere, so it was no longer necessary to provide cop
+++ Ralf Corsepius [2015-09-04 17:38 +0200]:
> On 09/04/2015 02:26 PM, Sébastien Hinderer wrote:
>
> >Eric Blake (2015/09/04 06:07 -0600):
> >>On 09/03/2015 08:09 AM, Sébastien Hinderer wrote:
> >>>Dear all,
> >>>
> >>>I am one of the maintainers of Coccinelle[1], a tool written in the
> >>>Object
On Sep 4, 2015, at 6:26 AM, Sébastien Hinderer wrote:
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> Eric Blake (2015/09/04 06:07 -0600):
>>
>> https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/gettext.html#AM_005fGNU_005fGETTEXT
>> https://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/manual/libtool.html#Distributing-libltdl
>
> Thank. I think the bundle appr
Dear Ralf,
> Well, what I can tell you with my Fedora on is that in Fedora we discourage
> bundling, because it in a nutshell raises a lot problems in maintenance,
> both for system-integrators (read: distros) and upstreams.
Many thanks for having written this. It is also what I think but I'd
nee
On 09/04/2015 02:26 PM, Sébastien Hinderer wrote:
Eric Blake (2015/09/04 06:07 -0600):
On 09/03/2015 08:09 AM, Sébastien Hinderer wrote:
Dear all,
I am one of the maintainers of Coccinelle[1], a tool written in the
Objective Caml[2] language.
The tool is distributed with the libraries it dep
> I think the bundle approach is favoured because the Objective Camllanguage
> and its libraries are not as widespread as gettext and libtool.
> So the idea of the bundles is tomake life of end-users simpler,
> but of course it also makes thelifeofdevelopers and maintainers
> a bit harder.
The cor
On 9/4/2015 8:26 AM, Sébastien Hinderer wrote:
> Dear Eric,
>
> Thanks a lot for your response.
>
> Eric Blake (2015/09/04 06:07 -0600):
>> On 09/03/2015 08:09 AM, Sébastien Hinderer wrote:
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> I am one of the maintainers of Coccinelle[1], a tool written in the
>>> Objective Cam
Dear Eric,
Thanks a lot for your response.
Eric Blake (2015/09/04 06:07 -0600):
> On 09/03/2015 08:09 AM, Sébastien Hinderer wrote:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I am one of the maintainers of Coccinelle[1], a tool written in the
> > Objective Caml[2] language.
> >
> > The tool is distributed with the
On 09/03/2015 08:09 AM, Sébastien Hinderer wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I am one of the maintainers of Coccinelle[1], a tool written in the
> Objective Caml[2] language.
>
> The tool is distributed with the libraries it depends on (they are
> provided as bundles).
At one point, this was how both libin
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