Re: checking for Berkley db 4.2 --> 4.3 upgrade

2005-07-27 Thread Mike Castle
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sam Steingold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Berkley db changed prototypes for functions that are struct members. >how do I check for that? The official word from Sleepycat is that it's much better to statically link against a known version of BDB that you ship with y

Re: disable -g flag

2004-03-12 Thread Mike Castle
ions but no >response... ./configure CFLAGS=-O However, in general, you want -g. mrc -- Mike Castle [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/ We are all of us living in the shadow of Manhattan. -- Watchmen fatal ("You are in a maze of twisty compiler features, all different"); -- gcc

Re: make distcheck arguments

2003-03-20 Thread Mike Castle
--with-crypt=[gcrypt|crypto] ? mrc -- Mike Castle [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/ We are all of us living in the shadow of Manhattan. -- Watchmen fatal ("You are in a maze of twisty compiler features, all different"); -- gcc

Re: please bring back program suffix for autoconf bin files

2003-03-03 Thread Mike Castle
l true, but I think the same issue _could_ happen with any vendors installed autoconf. mrc -- Mike Castle [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/ We are all of us living in the shadow of Manhattan. -- Watchmen fatal ("You are in a maze of twisty compiler features, all different"); -- gcc

Re: please bring back program suffix for autoconf bin files

2003-03-03 Thread Mike Castle
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Mike Castle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> When building from source, one rarely changes needs to make patches to >> configure.{in,ac} and then run autotools*. > >That depends on

Re: please bring back program suffix for autoconf bin files

2003-02-28 Thread Mike Castle
27;re using known versions of libc, binutils, gcc, rather than whatever may be installed on the system. Apply the same to autoconf. mrc -- Mike Castle [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/ We are all of us living in the shadow of Manhattan. -- Watchmen fatal ("You are in a maze of twisty compiler features, all different"); -- gcc

Re: Library linking problem

2003-02-27 Thread Mike Castle
ocated in /usr/local/lib, then indeed this is a bad sign. In that case, you'll probably be better off asking for help in a Linux specific discussion area (or pester a local guru). Good luck, mrc -- Mike Castle [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/ We are all of us

Re: Library linking problem

2003-02-17 Thread Mike Castle
>another before the library Is /usr/local/lib in /etc/ld.so.conf ? Do your tests for the existence of libgsl just compile or does it run as well? If it doesn't run, that could explain the situation here. mrc -- Mike Castle [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/ We are

AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT

2003-02-01 Thread Mike Castle
I see that a lot of packages (bison, for example) use AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT. Yet, this isn't documented anywhere. Should maintainers be using AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT? If so, should they be using AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT or $ac_includes_default. And, should it be documented? mrc -- Mike C

Re: autoscan and AC_CHECK_DECLS

2003-01-27 Thread Mike Castle
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mike Castle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Ok. Strange interactions with autoscan and autom4te.cache. And a possible >bug in autoscan otherwise. Hmmm. The following patch seems to improve my system a little bit. But I'm not certain if t

autoscan and AC_CHECK_DECLS

2003-01-26 Thread Mike Castle
[sys_siglist]) nexus@thune[10:07pm]~/foo(215) autoscan -V autoscan (GNU Autoconf) 2.57 Written by David J. MacKenzie and Akim Demaille. So, why different results after nuking autom4te.cache? Also, why is it bitching about sys_siglist? Thanks, mrc -- Mike Castle [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: AC_DEFINE questions

2002-12-17 Thread Mike Castle
on you. Hint: IT should not be involved in updating your autoconf stuff. Your developers and configuration manager should be. mrc -- Mike Castle [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/ We are all of us living in the shadow of Manhattan. -- Watchmen fatal ("You are in a

Re: AC_DEFINE questions

2002-12-17 Thread Mike Castle
r API to have have functions that provides those values at runtime. mrc -- Mike Castle [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/ We are all of us living in the shadow of Manhattan. -- Watchmen fatal ("You are in a maze of twisty compiler features, all different"); -- gcc

Re: Bad configure scripts generated with Autoconf 2.52 and 2.53

2002-04-11 Thread Mike Castle
k away from autoconf and write a meta program that will generate configure.in for you. mrc -- Mike Castle [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/ We are all of us living in the shadow of Manhattan. -- Watchmen fatal ("You are in a maze of twisty compiler features, all different"); -- gcc

Re: Autoconf, DOS and NT (was Ebcdic rule)

2001-10-04 Thread Mike Castle
On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 11:52:03AM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote: > > From: Mike Castle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I didn't realize that DOS and NT were considered UNIX-like systems. > [deleted] > My understanding is that bare DOS is not UNIX-like, but it gets > reason

Re: Ebcdic rule

2001-10-04 Thread Mike Castle
On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 11:52:11PM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote: > Autoconf is merely a tool for configuring source code for UNIX-like > systems. That problem is hard enough. I didn't realize that DOS and NT were considered UNIX-like systems. mrc -- Mike Castle [EMAI

Re: AC_C_BIGENDIAN vs. Darwin

2001-06-25 Thread Mike Castle
in supporting poor programming. mrc -- Mike Castle [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/ We are all of us living in the shadow of Manhattan. -- Watchmen fatal ("You are in a maze of twisty compiler features, all different"); -- gcc

Re: Auto-tools & Win32 & Borland C++ Builder

2001-05-24 Thread Mike Castle
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 11:37:22AM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Mike Castle writes: > > How do you reference the generated make file? > > include $(top_builddir)/Makefile.global > > This requires that you set top_builddir somewhere. Well, that's the magic I was w

Re: Auto-tools & Win32 & Borland C++ Builder

2001-05-23 Thread Mike Castle
I'm thinking about problems building outside of the source tree. mrc -- Mike Castle Life is like a clock: You can work constantly [EMAIL PROTECTED] and be right all the time, or not work at all www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/ and be right at least twice a day. -- mrc We are

Re: how to use libraries in /usr/local

2001-05-22 Thread Mike Castle
re of this stuff last night.] mrc -- Mike Castle Life is like a clock: You can work constantly [EMAIL PROTECTED] and be right all the time, or not work at all www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/ and be right at least twice a day. -- mrc We are all of us living in the shadow of Manhattan. -- Watchmen

Re: Spam, Bacon, Eggs & Spam (was: Re: yada $1.4M yada)

2001-04-09 Thread Mike Castle
id sites get put onto blocks. Do you block rate limited open relays that are useless for spammers? Do you block sites that prevent you from testing for open relays? (This probably falls under the "proven" clause by examining past history only; no proactive work.) mrc -- Mike C

Re: Rename atomicity

2001-03-07 Thread Mike Castle
On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 05:51:45PM +0100, Assar Westerlund wrote: > Mike Castle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > NT. (NT will happily rename() across disks, hardly an atomic operation). > > What rename() is that? It's not the one in their posix library I > assume?

Re: Rename atomicity

2001-03-05 Thread Mike Castle
for performance reasons, rename was not made atomic). mrc -- Mike Castle Life is like a clock: You can work constantly [EMAIL PROTECTED] and be right all the time, or not work at all www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/ and be right at least twice a day. -- mrc We are all of us living

Re: Should the C++ sourcefile extension be changed?

2000-09-12 Thread Mike Castle
On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 01:01:09PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: > I believe it would be more constructive to make M$VC accept .cc extention > is some non-interactive way. Anybody knows how? $(CP) foo.cc foo.cpp $(CC) foo.cpp ? mrc -- Mike Castle Life is like a clock: You ca

Re: HTML format documentation

2000-09-09 Thread Mike Castle
; remembering to do so every time you update them, it's easier to just > link them statically. Also, if an upgrade goes bad and /lib gets hosed (running out of disk space for instance), you're possibly stuck with an unusuable system. mrc -- Mike Castle Life is like a clock

Re: Why does ./configure not set prefix and exec_prefix?

2000-07-19 Thread Mike Castle
loping code/bug hunting, and you want to build for, say /usr/local/test instead of /usr/local. mrc -- Mike Castle Life is like a clock: You can work constantly [EMAIL PROTECTED] and be right all the time, or not work at all www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/ and be right at least twice a d

Re: AC_C_BIGENDIAN

2000-07-07 Thread Mike Castle
, but neither string is found in the body. Won't that still give you a false answer? Of course, I'd argue that programs should be written so that endianness doesn't matter. mrc -- Mike Castle Life is like a clock: You can work constantly [EMAIL PROTECTED] and be ri

Re: Autoconf 2.14 breaks certain uses of configure

2000-06-27 Thread Mike Castle
type... i386-pc-linux-gnu checking host system type... i386-pc-linux-gnu checking target system type... i386-pc-linux-gnu -- Mike Castle Life is like a clock: You can work constantly [EMAIL PROTECTED] and be right all the time, or not work at all www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/ and be

Re: Autoconf 2.14 breaks certain uses of configure

2000-06-27 Thread Mike Castle
.)' So I guess this is an improvement. One problem at a time. However, I must say, I do NOT like it changing "i386-linux" to "i386-pc-linux-gnu". That is not what I typed in. If I want to override it, I want to damn well override it. mrc On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 a

Re: build/host/target?

2000-06-24 Thread Mike Castle
s the host system. So, the non-option method of specifying the build system is no longer supported? If so, I'd have to say, this kinda sucks. I have a bunch of scripts that I use to build packages that I will have to change. Not to mention, it goes against the history of autoconf, and all