cache variable documentation (was: Autoconf and Automake support for ObjC++)

2009-10-07 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Peter Breitenlohner wrote on Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 11:26:15AM CEST: > During the last several months I was involved in a complete rewrite of > the TeXlive (formerly teTeX) build system using Automake and modernized > Autoconf. > > In doing so I "had" to use the names of various cache variables, i

Re: Autoconf and Automake support for ObjC++

2009-09-16 Thread Peter Breitenlohner
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009, Eric Blake wrote: According to Peter Breitenlohner on 7/22/2009 12:46 AM: attached is a patch implementing autoconf support for ObjC++. As expected this was extremely straightforward and only marginally intrusive. I've applied it with only minor modifications (for merge

Re: Autoconf and Automake support for ObjC++

2009-09-15 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Peter Breitenlohner on 7/22/2009 12:46 AM: > attached is a patch implementing autoconf support for ObjC++. As expected > this was extremely straightforward and only marginally intrusive. I've applied it with only minor modifications (for

Re: Autoconf and Automake support for ObjC++

2009-07-24 Thread Peter Breitenlohner
On Thu, 23 Jul 2009, Eric Blake wrote: Also, let's make sure we don't repeat the C++ mistake - if no suitable ObjC++ compiler is found, please make sure OBJCXX is set to no, not g++. (I didn't check if you did that). Hi Eric, although I remember having seen this (for C++) on the automa

Re: Autoconf and Automake support for ObjC++

2009-07-23 Thread Peter Breitenlohner
On Thu, 23 Jul 2009, Eric Blake wrote: In general, I'm in favor of this patch, but you are right that it would be nice to have some testsuite exposure to go along with it. Hi Eric, agreed. I'll think about some very basic tests for both ObjC and ObjC++. However, there really isn't that much

Re: Autoconf and Automake support for ObjC++

2009-07-23 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Peter Breitenlohner on 7/22/2009 12:46 AM: > On Tue, 21 Jul 2009, Eric Blake wrote: > >> Seconded, especially since autoconf already has ObjC and C++ support, so >> you have two similar languages to borrow from. > > Hi Eric, > > attache

Re: Autoconf and Automake support for ObjC++

2009-07-22 Thread Peter Breitenlohner
On Wed, 22 Jul 2009, Peter Breitenlohner wrote: There are no tests for ObjC, thus none for ObjC++ either. I think eventually some such tests should be added. Hi Eric, I forgot: in order to verify the basic functionality (*) I have constructed the attached tiny toy package. (*) (1) configure

Re: Autoconf and Automake support for ObjC++

2009-07-21 Thread Peter Breitenlohner
On Tue, 21 Jul 2009, Eric Blake wrote: Seconded, especially since autoconf already has ObjC and C++ support, so you have two similar languages to borrow from. Hi Eric, attached is a patch implementing autoconf support for ObjC++. As expected this was extremely straightforward and only margin

Re: Autoconf and Automake support for ObjC++

2009-07-21 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Peter Breitenlohner on 7/21/2009 3:26 AM: are there any plans that Automake supports ObjC++ (as implemented in gcc-4.x)? >> >> AFAIK nobody else is working on patches yet; they would be very welcome. >> I suppose adding ObjC++ su

Autoconf and Automake support for ObjC++

2009-07-21 Thread Peter Breitenlohner
On Tue, 21 Jul 2009, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: * Peter Breitenlohner wrote on Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 03:35:48PM CEST: On Mon, 20 Jul 2009, Peter Breitenlohner wrote: are there any plans that Automake supports ObjC++ (as implemented in gcc-4.x)? AFAIK nobody else is working on patches yet; they w