Re: backward compatability of tools

2003-02-19 Thread Alex Hornby
On a related note, does the restriction of not using shell functions in autoconf macros still remain, or have the OSs with such shells now gone the way of SunOS 4.x? Cheers, Alex. -- Alex Hornby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: (no subject)

2002-08-29 Thread Alex Hornby
On Thu, 2002-08-29 at 10:57, Akim Demaille wrote: > > | There are compilers which don't accept `.cc' but need `.cpp' for C++ > | files. Among them are z/OS (by default) and various compilers for > | MS-DOS and Windows. What about support for a CXXEXT variable? It is > | quite easy to add a rul

Re: HTML format documentation

2000-09-01 Thread Alex Hornby
Richard Stallman writes: > > I think we need to ask the community of developers what they would > think of this change. It sounds good, but it could have pitfalls > we have not thought of. > > Would someone like to do that? I dislike the idea of this kind of hard coding. I'd much rather

Re: submission: idl_depend

2000-08-17 Thread Alex Hornby
A generic CORBA wrapper is going to be complicated. Here's my 2p worth. This may be more appropriate to automake than autoconf... Ruslan Shevchenko writes: > 1. different ORB use different extensions. > > what mean .idl_c.hh : idl 2 c and hh ? >can it be somethin like: > id

Re: submission: idl_depend

2000-08-15 Thread Alex Hornby
Ruslan Shevchenko writes: > Are exists some documentation online ? > How it determinate the name and number of generated source files ? > It takes them as environment variables. For example here is one of my my TAO rules. .idl_c.hh: source='$<' object='$*_c.hh $*_s.hh $*_c.cpp $*_s.c

Re: submission: idl_depend

2000-08-14 Thread Alex Hornby
Diego Sevilla Ruiz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) writes: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi all: > > Sorry for my ignorance... but what is depcomp? I've downloaded the latest >autoconf > release and I don't find it. I can't find it in the autoconf's documentation. Help,

Re: submission: idl_depend

2000-08-14 Thread Alex Hornby
Ruslan, I think you will find that automake's depcomp in C preprocessor mode already handles IDL dependencies (I'm using the CVS version now :). Regards, Alex. Ruslan Shevchenko writes: > 1. I think it's also must be somewhere near my CORBA macroses. (hmm, > may be really create separate pag

Re: aclang.m4 problem (Cygwin + VC++)

2000-07-19 Thread Alex Hornby
AFAIK .cpp is the most portable C++ extension. The Mozilla and ACE (hi Ossama:) people settled on it for that reason. It is something akin to slow torture to get VC++ using .cc (requires registry mangling etc). BCB 4 won't use .cc at all. Alex. Lars J. Aas writes: > On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 0

IDL dependencies, proposed solution.

2000-05-31 Thread Alex Hornby
As IDL files use standard C preprocessor syntax for dependent inclusion, is it not possible to wrap the idl compile in depcomp? My IDL build rules are already structured as suffix rules, with a small wrapper script around the IDL compiler that uses lockfile(1) to prevent two targets (e.g. client

Re: Removing old testsuite

2000-05-12 Thread Alex Hornby
Akim Demaille writes: > > If there is a means to have this cleaner, please do it, I don't know > what to do (or are you saying I should `cvs update -d', then cvs > remove depth first?). > > Akim Akim, The cleanest way to do this is to have a ~/.cvsrc containing: update -P -d chec

Suggestion Re: rfc: new libgcc build mechanism

2000-05-09 Thread Alex Hornby
Does anyone have a pure 4.3BSD system connected up to the net? If so why not give the doubters a guest account so that they can see for themselves. Perhaps an ls -l and uname -a of such a machine would be equally satisfactory? Alex.

Re: warnings are errors?

2000-03-30 Thread Alex Hornby
The libodbc++ project has a similar problem. They solve it by installing odbc++/config.h with rewritten macro names like ODBCXX_HAVE_FOO. The rule looks like this: config.h: $(CONFIG_HEADER) config.h.in cat $(srcdir)/config.h.in > $@ sed -e 's/#\([^ ][^ ]*\) \([^ ][^ ]*\)/#\1 OD

Re: The Universal Source Package: GNU Autoconf Solves Only Part of the Problem

2000-02-24 Thread Alex Hornby
I don't think we need to get carried away on this. Why not start with the 90% solution start that just packages the binaries together with a manifest ( which I would hope is the lowest common denominator of package systems ). Once that is accomplished, then you can start worrying about rc file