Re: Overriding LN_S

2010-10-15 Thread Peter Rosin
[moving to autoconf-patc...@] Den 2010-09-07 16:47 skrev Eric Blake: > On 09/05/2010 03:31 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: >> Hi Eric, >> >> * Eric Blake wrote on Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 10:47:59PM CEST: >>> On 09/02/2010 02:43 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Well, we /should/ fix Autoconf to allow o

Re: Overriding LN_S

2010-09-07 Thread Eric Blake
On 09/05/2010 03:31 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Hi Eric, * Eric Blake wrote on Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 10:47:59PM CEST: On 09/02/2010 02:43 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Well, we /should/ fix Autoconf to allow overriding, and at that point, you should be able to override globally with export LN_S=..

Re: Overriding LN_S

2010-09-06 Thread Steffen Dettmer
On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 12:24 PM, Peter Rosin wrote: > Den 2010-09-03 11:47 skrev Steffen Dettmer: > Sorry, but there's just no way to make MSVC invoke cygpath when > it sees > > #include "ltdl.h" > > in some .c file and ltdl.h is a symlink. ohh sure... I missed the obvious. > > Interestingly, cy

Re: Overriding LN_S

2010-09-05 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Eric, * Eric Blake wrote on Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 10:47:59PM CEST: > On 09/02/2010 02:43 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > > >Well, we /should/ fix Autoconf to allow overriding, and at that point, > >you should be able to override globally with export LN_S=... > >(though I'm not sure if LN_S will b

Re: Overriding LN_S

2010-09-03 Thread Peter Rosin
Den 2010-09-03 11:47 skrev Steffen Dettmer: > On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 8:18 AM, Peter Rosin wrote: >> Den 2010-09-02 21:50 skrev Steffen Dettmer: >>> On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 9:18 PM, Peter Rosin wrote: > [cp instead of ln -s] >>> >>> couldn't this break dependcies? >> >> I'm using MSVC to cross-comp

Re: Overriding LN_S

2010-09-03 Thread Steffen Dettmer
On Thu, Sep 2, 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Well, we /should/ fix Autoconf to allow overriding, and at that > point, you should be able to override globally with export > LN_S=... Is it a good idea to use this to override symlinking to something different? Isn't this close to `AR=winzip GREP=a

Re: Overriding LN_S

2010-09-03 Thread Steffen Dettmer
On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 8:18 AM, Peter Rosin wrote: > Den 2010-09-02 21:50 skrev Steffen Dettmer: >> On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 9:18 PM, Peter Rosin wrote: [cp instead of ln -s] >> >> couldn't this break dependcies? > > I'm using MSVC to cross-compile from the Cygwin environment, so there > isn't any

Re: Overriding LN_S

2010-09-02 Thread Peter Rosin
Hi Steffen! Den 2010-09-02 21:50 skrev Steffen Dettmer: > On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 9:18 PM, Peter Rosin wrote: >> (background: I want to have Libtool on Cygwin drive MSVC, and >> Cygwin creates soft links that MSVC does not understand. The >> Libtool testsuite invokes autoconf followed by configure

Re: Overriding LN_S

2010-09-02 Thread Peter Rosin
Den 2010-09-02 21:45 skrev Peter Rosin: > Den 2010-09-02 21:32 skrev Ralf Wildenhues: >> Hi Peter, >> >> * Peter Rosin wrote on Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 09:18:29PM CEST: >>> For various reasons I want to override the decision autoconf >>> makes regarding LN_S. It it set to "ln -s" on my system which >>

Re: Overriding LN_S

2010-09-02 Thread Eric Blake
On 09/02/2010 02:43 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: * Peter Rosin wrote on Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 09:45:13PM CEST: Den 2010-09-02 21:32 skrev Ralf Wildenhues: * Peter Rosin wrote on Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 09:18:29PM CEST: I also want this to propagate to recursive autoconf invocations, so it is not suf

Re: Overriding LN_S

2010-09-02 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Peter Rosin wrote on Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 09:45:13PM CEST: > Den 2010-09-02 21:32 skrev Ralf Wildenhues: > > * Peter Rosin wrote on Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 09:18:29PM CEST: > >> I also want this to > >> propagate to recursive autoconf invocations, so it is not > >> sufficient to manually edit the ge

Re: Overriding LN_S

2010-09-02 Thread Steffen Dettmer
On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 9:18 PM, Peter Rosin wrote: > (background: I want to have Libtool on Cygwin drive MSVC, and > Cygwin creates soft links that MSVC does not understand. The > Libtool testsuite invokes autoconf followed by configure several > times when it runs). couldn't this break dependcie

Re: Overriding LN_S

2010-09-02 Thread Peter Rosin
Den 2010-09-02 21:32 skrev Ralf Wildenhues: > Hi Peter, > > * Peter Rosin wrote on Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 09:18:29PM CEST: >> For various reasons I want to override the decision autoconf >> makes regarding LN_S. It it set to "ln -s" on my system which >> is perfectly fine in every normal case. But i

Re: Overriding LN_S

2010-09-02 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Peter, * Peter Rosin wrote on Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 09:18:29PM CEST: > For various reasons I want to override the decision autoconf > makes regarding LN_S. It it set to "ln -s" on my system which > is perfectly fine in every normal case. But in my abnormal case > I want it to be "cp -p". What ca

Overriding LN_S

2010-09-02 Thread Peter Rosin
Hi! For various reasons I want to override the decision autoconf makes regarding LN_S. It it set to "ln -s" on my system which is perfectly fine in every normal case. But in my abnormal case I want it to be "cp -p". What can I do? I also want this to propagate to recursive autoconf invocations, so