Re: automake-1.18 released [stable]

2025-06-04 Thread Valentin Lefebvre via Discussion list for the autoconf build system
Hello! Thanks for this release. announce-gen: NEWS: no matching lines for '1.18' > The signature should match the fingerprint of the following key: > pub rsa2048 2012-06-12 [SC] > 17D3 311B 14BC 0F24 8267 BF02 0716 748A 30D1 55AD > uid Karl Berry > It seems that the key used t

Re: automake-1.18 released [stable]

2025-06-04 Thread Valentin Lefebvre via Discussion list for the autoconf build system
Hello! Thanks for this release. It seems that the key used to sign the archive is no longer the one from the automake group. Is it intentional ? All the best, Valentin Lefebvre Linux Distribution Engineer - packager Member of System Boot and Init team SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH 56100

Re: automake-1.17.90 pretest released [alpha]

2025-03-27 Thread Frederic Berat via Discussion list for the autoconf build system
On Wed, Feb 26, 2025 at 12:53 AM Karl Berry wrote: > This is to announce automake-1.17.90, a alpha release. > See the NEWS below for a brief summary of changes. > > Download here: > https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.17.90.tar.gz > https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.17.9

Re: automake-1.16.5 released [stable]

2021-10-04 Thread Kip Warner
On Sun, 2021-10-03 at 21:51 -0700, Jim Meyering wrote: > Thanks to everyone who has contributed! > The following people contributed changes to this release: Thank you everyone for your contributions. All of us who depend on your work are very grateful. -- Kip Warner -- Senior Software Engineer O

Re: automake problem with multiple "-rpath"

2021-05-10 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Mon, 10 May 2021, aotto wrote: ./configure {CC=gcc -m32 -O2} --prefix=... --enable-shared --disable-static --with-readline-includes=... {--with-readline-library=-L.../lib -lreadline} --with-tcl=.../lib --with-tcl-includes=... The above does not look good to me. It seems that you expect t

Re: automake problem with multiple "-rpath"

2021-05-10 Thread aotto
On 10.05.21 20:35, Thomas Jahns wrote: What does ldd libtclreadline.so give? Regards, Thomas > ls -ald *readline* -rw-r--r-- 1 dev1usr users 478680 29. Apr 22:28 libreadline.a lrwxrwxrwx 1 dev1usr users 18 29. Apr 22:28 libreadline.so -> libreadline.so.4.0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 dev1usr users   

Re: automake problem with multiple "-rpath"

2021-05-10 Thread Thomas Jahns
On 5/10/21 7:14 PM, aotto wrote: To be honest I don't want to set the -rpath at all… what I have : #1 libtclreadline.so depend on libreadline.so #2 everything is in the SAME directory #3 the directory is already KNOWN to ld.so > ls -ald *readline* -rw-r--r-- 1 dev1usr users 478680 29. Apr 22:

Re: automake problem with multiple "-rpath"

2021-05-10 Thread aotto
On 10.05.21 15:10, Thomas Jahns wrote: Hi, you are confusing the -rpath /some/path option to libtool, which tells libtool where a library will be installed and the -Wl,-rpath,/some/other/path option to ld. If you replaced -rpath .../lib by -Wl,-rpath,.../lib everything should work as expected

Re: automake problem with multiple "-rpath"

2021-05-10 Thread Thomas Jahns
Hi, you are confusing the -rpath /some/path option to libtool, which tells libtool where a library will be installed and the -Wl,-rpath,/some/other/path option to ld. If you replaced -rpath .../lib by -Wl,-rpath,.../lib everything should work as expected. Also relative rpath values will probabl

Re: automake problem with multiple "-rpath"

2021-05-10 Thread aotto
additional info: the file tclreadline is opened by dlopen, add adding -rpath to cct does NOT affect the dlopen path: > LD_DEBUG=all ./cct 38807: file=/dev/shm/dev1usr/Compiler3.BUILD/lib/JavaKiller/exe/linuxi386/lib/libtclreadline.so [0];  dynamically loaded by ./libtcl8.3.so [0]

Re: Automake, Autoconf and POSIX shells (was: Re: GraphicsMagick Automake TAP)

2012-08-19 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sun, 19 Aug 2012, Stefano Lattarini wrote: Under Solaris 10, I found that some fancy ksh-style syntax was failing due to use of /bin/sh. You mean in your test scripts, or in the Automake-provided driver scripts? The latter would be an Automake bug, while the former would be a user error: if

Re: Dynamic package version numbers with Autoconf and Automake (was: Re: Automake 1.12.0b test release)

2012-08-15 Thread Roger Leigh
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 06:57:02PM -0500, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > AC_INIT(m4_esyscmd([scripts/pkginfo.sh package_name]), > m4_esyscmd([scripts/pkginfo.sh package_version]), > m4_esyscmd([scripts/pkginfo.sh package_bugreport])) > > Unfortunately, the values passed to AC_INIT are ca

Re: Dynamic package version numbers with Autoconf and Automake (was: Re: Automake 1.12.0b test release)

2012-08-14 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
The script I intend to use to obtain package information is in the GraphicsMagick repository and produces information gleaned from a 'version.sh' script which has the smarts to produce some obvious variable names. echo `./scripts/pkginfo.sh package_bugreport` graphicsmagick-b...@lists.sourcefo

Re: Dynamic package version numbers with Autoconf and Automake (was: Re: Automake 1.12.0b test release)

2012-08-14 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Wed, 15 Aug 2012, Stefano Lattarini wrote: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE($PACKAGE_NAME,"${PACKAGE_VERSION}${PACKAGE_VERSION_ADDENDUM}", ' ') The reason is because it avoids needing to edit configure.ac (a really stupid practice) I agree with this; with today's DVCS, it's very tempting (and IMHO useful)

Dynamic package version numbers with Autoconf and Automake (was: Re: Automake 1.12.0b test release)

2012-08-14 Thread Stefano Lattarini
Hi Bob, I managed to find your old message about "dynamically computing package versions for Automake and Autoconf". Some initial comments follows. I'm adding the Autoconf list in CC:, because I believe this is an Autoconf issue more than an Automake one. On 05/20/2012 12:59 AM, Bob Friesenhahn

Re: Automake options and Libtool

2011-09-26 Thread Stefano Lattarini
[adding automake list in CC:] Hi Cédric. Please note that questions about automake should be sent to the automake list, not to the autoconf one. Thanks. On Monday 26 September 2011, GAVA Cédric wrote: > Dear all > > I am trying to pass -Wall option to AM_AUTOMAKE : > I guess you mean AM_INIT_A

Re: Automake conditionals in autoconf

2010-02-24 Thread NightStrike
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > The above looks ok to me.  Since I cannot, from your description, > exactly reproduce the code that caused the warning for you, I cannot say > whether that was a problem. > > The code as above does not yet take care of adjusting SUBDIRS (an

Re: Automake conditionals in autoconf

2010-02-24 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello, * NightStrike wrote on Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 06:29:04PM CET: > AC_MSG_CHECKING([whether to build the optional libraries]) > AC_ARG_WITH([libraries], > [AS_HELP_STRING([--with-libraries=ARG], > [Build the extra mingw-w64 libs, where ARG is one of libmangle, > pseh, or all])], > [], >

RE: Automake

2008-09-04 Thread Lalit Seth
Hi Brain, Thanks alot. Though I posted this in wrong mailing list. I appreciate your comments and time this is real helpful. Many Thanks Lalit Seth > Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 15:04:08 -0700 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > CC: autoconf@gnu.org > Subject: Re: Aut

Re: Automake

2008-09-03 Thread Brian Dessent
Lalit Seth wrote: > I am trying to learn Autoconf and Automake tools. There are few queries I have These are separate from gcc and each have their own list. I've set the reply-to list to autoconf@ since nothing below is really automake specific. > a) When compile happens it always have -g and -

Re: Automake and GPLv3

2007-08-30 Thread Bernd Jendrissek
On 8/30/07, Bruce Korb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Something fuzzily along the lines that all code emitted by these tools > are, by that action alone, released to the public domain with no licensing > requirements or constraints whatever? After all, they are sufficiently > convoluted that I certa

Re: Automake and GPLv3

2007-08-29 Thread Bruce Korb
On 8/29/07, Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > The short question I have is: > > > > If automake/autoconf use GPLv3, will I be able to use them for packages > > that are NOT GPLv3? > > The goal is YES. Remember, with autoconf 2.61 and automake 1.10, bo

Re: Automake and GPLv3

2007-08-29 Thread Harlan Stenn
Eric, Sounds good - thanks very much! H ___ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf

Re: Automake and GPLv3

2007-08-29 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Harlan Stenn on 8/29/2007 8:59 PM: > This is the first I've seen on this thread. > > I have heard that GPLv3 is viral/invasive. No more so than GPLv2 was, and hopefully less so. That was part of the reason GPLv3 went through such a long

Re: Automake and GPLv3

2007-08-29 Thread Harlan Stenn
This is the first I've seen on this thread. I have heard that GPLv3 is viral/invasive. The short question I have is: If automake/autoconf use GPLv3, will I be able to use them for packages that are NOT GPLv3? IE, if GPLv3 is viral/invasive, I cannot use software covered by GPLv3 for most of t

Re: Automake and GPLv3

2007-08-29 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Ralf Wildenhues on 8/29/2007 3:13 PM: > Hello Brett, > > Thanks for your reply. Likewise. > > * Brett Smith wrote on Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 09:47:18PM CEST: > Not the only one, but for another stable release (1.10.1), I don't think > muc

Re: Automake 1.10 - No rule to make target '-c', needed by 'all-am'. Stop.

2007-06-19 Thread Craig Sanders
Hi Ralf. It appears that I told a small lie, I actually had INSTALL and friends defined as follows ; INSTALL = /usr/bin/install -c INSTALL_DATA = ${INSTALL} -m 644 INSTALL_PROGRAM = ${INSTALL} INSTALL_SCRIPT = ${INSTALL} INSTALL_STRIP_PROGRAM = ${SHELL} $(install_sh) -c -s To answer one of your

Re: Automake 1.10 - No rule to make target '-c', needed by 'all-am'. Stop.

2007-06-19 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Craig, * Craig Sanders wrote on Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 07:39:11AM CEST: > > Thankyou for your prompt response to my two queries last week. > > I think I have solved my own problems. One of the problems was that I > had defined the variable ; > > INSTALL = install -c -m 644 Above line is

Re: Automake 1.10 - No rule to make target '-c', needed by 'all-am'. Stop.

2007-06-18 Thread Craig Sanders
Hi Ralf. Thankyou for your prompt response to my two queries last week. I think I have solved my own problems. One of the problems was that I had defined the variable ; INSTALL = install -c -m 644 in one of my Makefile.am files. The reason I did this was because I was trying to implement a

Re: automake not working inspite of AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile])

2005-03-05 Thread Paul Eggert
Hema K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > configure.in:16: warning: AC_RUN_IFELSE was called before AC_GNU_SOURCE Try calling AC_GNU_SOURCE before line 16. ___ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf

Re: Re: automake not working inspite of AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile])

2005-03-04 Thread Hema K
hi actually i want to compile(ie cross compile mutt) with mb-gcc(for the microblaze processor and uclinux OS) instead of gcc. so by studying the documentation of autoconf, i started by (1) adding AC_CANONICAL_SYSTEM in configure.in (2) adding AC_TRY_RUN(mb-gcc) in configure.in (3) adding AC_

Re: automake not working inspite of AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile])

2005-03-04 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 12:40:33PM -0300, Hema K wrote: > > i am not able to figure out as to why automake is not working. Because your 6-year-old version does not understand the new constructs that have been introduced in this century. Upgrade. ___ A

Re: automake not working inspite of AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile])

2005-03-04 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 12:40:33PM -0300, Hema K wrote: > the following is present in configure.in > > AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile intl/Makefile [...] > AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile]) OK, in this case there is no need to repeat. The first AC_CONFIG_FILES is enough. One more wild guess: is i

Re: automake not working inspite of Makefile.am

2005-03-02 Thread David Mohr
Hi, On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 11:09:09 +0100, Stepan Kasal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > [the right list for this question would be automake@gnu.org, btw] > > On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 04:31:13PM -0300, Hema K wrote: > > i have a problem even though i have Makefile.am > > i am getting the follo

Re: automake not working inspite of Makefile.am

2005-03-02 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hi, On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 10:30:13AM -0600, David Mohr wrote: > > I guess you don't have > > AC_CONFIG_FILES(Makefile.in) > > in your configure.{ac,in} > > AC_CONFIG_FILES(Makefile) of course, I apologize for the misleading typo. > couldn't find a definition for AC_CONFIG_FILES, The

Re: automake not working inspite of Makefile.am

2005-03-02 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, [the right list for this question would be automake@gnu.org, btw] On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 04:31:13PM -0300, Hema K wrote: > i have a problem even though i have Makefile.am > i am getting the following error when i do automake. > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/mutt-1.4.2.1$ automake > automake: no `M

Re: automake/autoreconf: Incomprehensible error messages bugs

2005-02-01 Thread Paul Eggert
Bruce Korb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tuesday 25 January 2005 01:47 pm, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: >> ... Maybe the autoreconf documentation should point to the Gettext >> manual. Care to patch the Autoconf manual? > > Below. :-) Thanks. I rewrote it a bit, and added a proper cross refe

Re: automake/autoreconf: Incomprehensible error messages bugs

2005-01-30 Thread Bruce Korb
On Tuesday 25 January 2005 01:47 pm, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: > >> > > $ autoreconf > >> > > autoreconf: configure.ac: AM_GNU_GETTEXT is used, but not > AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION > >> > >> > 1. The automake example of AM_GNU_GETTEXT does not show > >> > AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION being use

Re: automake/autoreconf: Incomprehensible error messages bugs

2005-01-27 Thread Noah Misch
[snipping automake@ from cc:] On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 09:09:30AM -0800, Bruce Korb wrote: > On Tuesday 25 January 2005 01:37 am, Noah Misch wrote: > > The message is not meaningful because this Never Happens :) > > Ah. Good. Then I didn't see it. :) That is to say, this only happens by a bug

Re: automake/autoreconf: Incomprehensible error messages bugs

2005-01-25 Thread Bruce Korb
On Tuesday 25 January 2005 01:47 pm, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: > Bruce> Um, okay, but if automake is going to emit the message, then it only > Bruce> makes sense (to me) that automake include the documentation. > > That would make sense to me too. However automake is not > emitting the mess

Re: automake/autoreconf: Incomprehensible error messages bugs

2005-01-25 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
>>> "Bruce" == Bruce Korb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Bruce> On Tuesday 25 January 2005 01:37 am, Noah Misch wrote: >> On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 09:28:36AM -0800, Bruce Korb wrote: >> > > $ autoreconf >> > > autoreconf: configure.ac: AM_GNU_GETTEXT is used, but not >> > > AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSIO

Re: automake/autoreconf: Incomprehensible error messages bugs

2005-01-25 Thread Bruce Korb
On Tuesday 25 January 2005 01:37 am, Noah Misch wrote: > On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 09:28:36AM -0800, Bruce Korb wrote: > > > $ autoreconf > > > autoreconf: configure.ac: AM_GNU_GETTEXT is used, but not > > > AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION > > > 1. The automake example of AM_GNU_GETTEXT does not show > >

Re: automake/autoreconf: Incomprehensible error messages bugs

2005-01-25 Thread Noah Misch
On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 09:28:36AM -0800, Bruce Korb wrote: > > $ autoreconf > > autoreconf: configure.ac: AM_GNU_GETTEXT is used, but not > > AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION > 1. The automake example of AM_GNU_GETTEXT does not show > AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION being used in conjunction with it. > I

Re: Automake 1.8.3 doesn't build?

2004-04-20 Thread Paul Eggert
Eric Sunshine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Autoconf could, for example, publish a macro such as the following: > > AS_SELECT_SHELL([features], [action-if-found], [action-if-not-found]) I like this basic idea approach (though of course it would take some hacking).

Re: Automake 1.8.3 doesn't build?

2004-04-20 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
Regarding use of Zsh, is it not possible to add options to the SHELL definition so that even if Zsh is the selected shell, it will properly split arguments. For example, in my Zsh manual page, I see that the -y option enables SH_WORD_SPLIT so presumably SHELL = /bin/zsh -y should emulate the Bou

Re: Automake 1.8.3 doesn't build?

2004-04-20 Thread Eric Sunshine
On Mon, 19 Apr 2004 21:01:58 +0200, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: > A suggestion was to always use `SHELL = /bin/sh' in Makefiles. > I simply don't know how correct this is, because that's how it > was in the past before Chris Provenzano changed it to what it is > now. The reason for that change see

Re: Automake 1.8.3 doesn't build?

2004-04-19 Thread Richard Dawe
Hello. Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: [snip] A suggestion was to always use `SHELL = /bin/sh' in Makefiles. I simply don't know how correct this is, because that's how it was in the past before Chris Provenzano changed it to what it is now. The reason for that change seems to have been lost. Because

Re: Automake 1.8.3 doesn't build?

2004-04-19 Thread Paul Eggert
Alexandre Duret-Lutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'd say it would be useful that @SHELL@ be the most POSIX compliant > shell that does not require any configuration code (such as > _AS_BOURNE_COMPATIBLE) to work. CONFIG_SHELL would allow shell that > require such extra code. Yes, I like this i

Re: Automake 1.8.3 doesn't build?

2004-04-19 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
>>> "Eric" == Eric Sunshine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] Eric> I can submit a patch to autoconf-patches to make Eric> Autoconf's shell selection more backward-compatible with Eric> earlier versions of Autoconf, however this raises another Eric> issue. My interpretation of this thread is

Re: Automake 1.8.3 doesn't build?

2004-04-18 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sun, 18 Apr 2004, Eric Sunshine wrote: > I can submit a patch to autoconf-patches to make Autoconf's shell selection > more backward-compatible with earlier versions of Autoconf, however this > raises another issue. My interpretation of this thread is that Autoconf's new > shell selection behav

Re: Automake 1.8.3 doesn't build?

2004-04-18 Thread Eric Sunshine
On Sun, 18 Apr 2004 13:08:54 -0500 (CDT), Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Sun, 18 Apr 2004, Eric Sunshine wrote: > > Can you apply the following manual edit to the configure script > > (not the configure.ac file) and report if it fixes the problem? > > In configure, find the line: > > as_candidate_shel

Re: Automake 1.8.3 doesn't build?

2004-04-18 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sun, 18 Apr 2004, Eric Sunshine wrote: > > CVS Autoconf looks for a shell which supports functions and $LINENO. > Apparently, your zsh satisfies those requirements, so Autoconf is happy with > it. > > > Even if zsh is used, there are well-documented ways to tell Zsh to > > split arguments like t

Re: Automake 1.8.3 doesn't build?

2004-04-18 Thread Eric Sunshine
On Sun, 18 Apr 2004 10:02:14 -0500 (CDT), Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Sun, 18 Apr 2004, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: > > This suggests that shell running this code does not split $list > > and $subdir get the full list. Zsh would do that. Could you > > compare the output of grep 'SHELL =' Makefile

Re: automake + others being run everytime something changes

2004-02-17 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Vaclav Haisman wrote: > That is afaik because teh checked out files have bad time stamps. configure's > time stamp must be the younger than configure.in's, Makefile.in's younger than > Makefile.am's etc. CVS does not preserve time stamps. Freshly checked out files have the c

Re: automake + others being run everytime something changes

2004-02-17 Thread Vaclav Haisman
That is afaik because teh checked out files have bad time stamps. configure's time stamp must be the younger than configure.in's, Makefile.in's younger than Makefile.am's etc. WilX On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Nigel Kukard wrote: > HI Guys, > > I've followed the documentation to make a gnu build syst

Re: Automake 1.7f uploaded (third beta for Automake 1.8)

2003-11-26 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
>>> "adl" == Alexandre Duret-Lutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: adl> This is the third beta release of the next version of Automake (1.8). Sorry I messed with the URLs. The release is 1.7f, not 1.7e. Here are the corrected URL. ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.7f.tar.gz ftp://alpha.gn

Re: automake/401: 1-gary-scan-ac-config-libobj-dir.patch

2003-09-08 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
>>> "Gary" == Gary V Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Gary> Automakers: Gary> I thought I would have a play with the single makefile support using Gary> automake-1.7.6, but tripped over buggy support for LIBOBJS in subdirs. Gary> This patch takes note of a AC_CONFIG_LIBOBJ_DIR declaration,

Re: automake/autoconf issues on a sun

2003-09-05 Thread Paul Eggert
"L. D. Marks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1) One of the systems has both X11R5 and X11R6 and it > looks like AC_PATH_XTRA may be getting confused about > which one to use. Does it seach by decreasing or increasing > release? I think it uses the first release it finds. The details are hairy tho

Re: Automake & objects in subdirs

2003-08-08 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
[Moving from autoconf@ to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> "FAU" == Frank A Uepping <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: FAU> Hello, FAU> I have the following directory layout: FAU> src/ FAU> bar.c FAU> src/common FAU> foo.c FAU> The program foobar should be build as follows (dependency): FAU> foobar: b

Re: automake --no-force (Was: autoreconf invode automake with --no-force (autoconf ver.2.54))

2002-10-03 Thread Nishio Futoshi
At Tue, 01 Oct 2002 08:47:57 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > It's not too bad of a way to start, but it has a drawback that I've seen > in probably the majority of Autoconf scripts out there, namely it creates > a configure.in that checks for a bunch of things for which the source code > has no worka

Re: automake --no-force (Was: autoreconf invode automake with--no-force (autoconf ver.2.54))

2002-10-01 Thread Russ Allbery
Nishio Futoshi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My suggestion for beginers: > Use autoscan in your source directory, then rename `configure.scan' to > `configure.in'. Then edit `configure.in'. Your works are to modify > `AC_INIT' arguments, comment out `AC_CONFIG_HEADERS', add > AM_INIT_ATOMAKE([

Re: automake --no-force (Was: autoreconf invode automake with --no-force (autoconf ver.2.54))

2002-10-01 Thread Nishio Futoshi
Thank you for your reply, and I understand that. I think that we can use `autoreconf' for bootstrap. We don't have to invoke `aclocal', `automake', `autoconf', and `libtoolize' separately, even if one uses Autotool for the first time with the package. Now we can do that, `autoreconf --symlink

Re: automake --no-force (Was: autoreconf invode automake with --no-force (autoconf ver.2.54))

2002-09-30 Thread Akim Demaille
| At 26 Sep 2002 15:12:10 +0200, | Akim Demaille wrote: | > This is very bizarre! But I'm lost in your list of actions. Could | > you send a small example of touch and cat that yields the problem? Or | > a simple tarball in which one must run autoreconf? Thanks! | | I put tarbal http://www.d

Re: Automake 1.6d available (beta for Automake 1.7)

2002-09-24 Thread Akim Demaille
| Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: | > Bruce> My preference would be this: | > | > Could you send this to the list? | | Alright: | | I would really like to see the auto* tools packages (autoconf, | automake and libtool) each adopt several of their worst | clients' packages for regression testing.

Re: Automake 1.6d available (beta for Automake 1.7)

2002-09-22 Thread Bruce Korb
Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: > Bruce> My preference would be this: > > Could you send this to the list? Alright: I would really like to see the auto* tools packages (autoconf, automake and libtool) each adopt several of their worst clients' packages for regression testing. As each release is r

Re: Automake 1.6b available.

2002-08-01 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
>>> "Bob" == Bob Ham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] Bob> Any idea when 1.7 will be released (roughly, obviously; I Bob> mean, months? weeks? days?) I've got a build tree in a Bob> cvs that uses cvs automake. It's waiting for 1.7 until Bob> it's committed :) CVS Automake needs Autocon

Re: automake and autoconf

2001-06-01 Thread Gary V . Vaughan
On Thursday 31 May 2001 7:47 pm, Dan Miner wrote: > Hello, Hello Dan, > I've been reading the autoconf book and I find it quite useful; however, > I've hit a wall and can't seem to wrap my head around it. Glad you like the book. > Quick layout > > proj/Makefile.am > proj/configure.in > proj/l

RE: automake understand new AC_OUTPUT

2001-02-16 Thread Tim Van Holder
> I am wondering if the new preferred way of an empty AC_OUTPUT > and use of AC_CONFIG_FILES in autoconf-2.49c is presently > known to automake-1.4d or does automake still require the > old way of doing AC_OUTPUT. Thanks. CVS automake, and 1.4d too I believe, should support both the old and the n

Re: Automake being orphaned?

2001-01-13 Thread Tom Tromey
> "James" == jamesb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: James> If automake is being orphaned in New Millenium, which I'm sure James> I heard it was, I'd like to be the new maintainer. The best way to do that is to start working on it now and submit patches. Tom

Re: Automake needs --localdir?

2000-09-11 Thread Earnie Boyd
--- "Lars J. Aas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 06:18:59AM -0700, Earnie Boyd wrote: > : --- "Lars J. Aas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > : > I've started using AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR(aux) and stow away files into aux/. > : > : PORTABILITY Issue: aux should not be used as a direct

Re: Automake needs --localdir?

2000-09-11 Thread Lars J. Aas
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 06:18:59AM -0700, Earnie Boyd wrote: : --- "Lars J. Aas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : > I've started using AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR(aux) and stow away files into aux/. : : PORTABILITY Issue: aux should not be used as a directory, filename or filename : part (i.e. aux, aux.foo or

Re: Automake needs --localdir?

2000-09-11 Thread Lars J. Aas
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 06:18:59AM -0700, Earnie Boyd wrote: : --- "Lars J. Aas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : > I've started using AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR(aux) and stow away files into aux/. : : PORTABILITY Issue: aux should not be used as a directory, filename or filename : part (i.e. aux, aux.foo or

Re: Automake needs --localdir?

2000-09-11 Thread Earnie Boyd
--- "Lars J. Aas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've started using AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR(aux) and stow away files into aux/. PORTABILITY Issue: aux should not be used as a directory, filename or filename part (i.e. aux, aux.foo or foo.aux) as it is treated as a device by DOS and WIN32. If the directo

Re: automake --build-dir

2000-04-03 Thread Lars J. Aas
On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 08:17:02AM -0700, Bruce Korb wrote: : Earnie Boyd wrote: : > > How about mv'ing itself out of the way (to configure.bak or something : > > similar)? : > > : > : > Can't do that either. A mv is a cp && rm. : : 1. It is only for developers : 2 How about putting at the e

Re: automake --build-dir

2000-04-03 Thread Earnie Boyd
--- "Lars J. Aas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 07:46:08AM -0700, Earnie Boyd wrote: > : --- "Lars J. Aas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > : > How about mv'ing itself out of the way (to configure.bak or something > : > similar)? > : > : Can't do that either. A mv is a cp && r

Re: automake --build-dir

2000-04-03 Thread Lars J. Aas
On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 07:46:08AM -0700, Earnie Boyd wrote: : --- "Lars J. Aas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : > How about mv'ing itself out of the way (to configure.bak or something : > similar)? : : Can't do that either. A mv is a cp && rm. I thought it was a link() and an unlink(), but you're

Re: automake --build-dir

2000-04-03 Thread Bruce Korb
Earnie Boyd wrote: > > How about mv'ing itself out of the way (to configure.bak or something > > similar)? > > > > Can't do that either. A mv is a cp && rm. 1. It is only for developers 2 How about putting at the end: ( ( sleep 3 ; rm -f configure ; autoconf ) & ) exit 0 After 3 se

Re: automake --build-dir

2000-04-03 Thread Bruce Korb
Earnie Boyd wrote: > > --- Bruce Korb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I made an archive file named "configure" that contains > > a shar archive of the generated files. It runs, recreating > > the generated files, deletes itself and then runs autoconf. >^^ NOT

Re: automake --build-dir

2000-04-03 Thread Earnie Boyd
--- "Lars J. Aas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 06:57:33AM -0700, Earnie Boyd wrote: > : --- Bruce Korb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > : > I made an archive file named "configure" that contains > : > a shar archive of the generated files. It runs, recreating > : > the generat

Re: automake --build-dir

2000-04-03 Thread Lars J. Aas
On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 06:57:33AM -0700, Earnie Boyd wrote: : --- Bruce Korb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : > I made an archive file named "configure" that contains : > a shar archive of the generated files. It runs, recreating : > the generated files, deletes itself and then runs autoconf. :

Re: automake --build-dir

2000-04-03 Thread Earnie Boyd
--- Bruce Korb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -8<- > > I just installed a cute hack in the AutoGen CVS :-) > I made an archive file named "configure" that contains > a shar archive of the generated files. It runs, recreating > the generated files, deletes itself and then runs autoconf.

Re: automake --build-dir

2000-04-03 Thread Bruce Korb
Akim Demaille wrote: > >> Is it working for you when you start from a clean just-checked-out > >> repository? > > Alexandre> Nope. The first problem is that autoconf needs itself to > Alexandre> bootstrap. > > Not really, the CVS repository contains the full tarball (with > configure, Makefile.

Re: automake --build-dir

2000-04-03 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Akim" == Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Akim> CVS Autoconf sticks to Automake 1.4: that's why you find all Akim> those problems. Use 1.4 instead, that's the easier way out. Oops, now I remember you *should* use 1.4, otherwise, because we rely on something which has changed bet

Re: automake --build-dir

2000-04-03 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Alexandre> On Apr 2, 2000, Erez Zadok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Have you tried to make dist in a a build dir that's not srcdir? Alexandre> A long time ago, I installed a patch in autoconf to make it Alexandre> work. I don't kn

Re: automake --build-dir

2000-04-03 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Erez" == Erez Zadok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > Update: I managed to solve that problem by rerunning automake on >> the .am > files in the autoconf CVS repository. >> >> You must re-run aclocal before automake. Erez> Thanks. Erez> I still, however, seem to have a problem with make

Re: automake --build-dir

2000-04-02 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Apr 2, 2000, Erez Zadok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Have you tried to make dist in a a build dir that's not srcdir? A long time ago, I installed a patch in autoconf to make it work. I don't know if it has been broken again since then. > Is it working for you when you start from a clean ju

Re: automake --build-dir

2000-04-02 Thread Erez Zadok
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Alexandre Oliva writes: > On Apr 2, 2000, Erez Zadok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Update: I managed to solve that problem by rerunning automake on the .am > > files in the autoconf CVS repository. > > You must re-run aclocal before automake. Thanks. I still

Re: automake --build-dir

2000-04-01 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Apr 2, 2000, Erez Zadok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Update: I managed to solve that problem by rerunning automake on the .am > files in the autoconf CVS repository. You must re-run aclocal before automake. -- Alexandre OlivaEnjoy Guaraná, see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Cygnus So

Re: automake --build-dir

2000-04-01 Thread Erez Zadok
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Erez Zadok writes: > Autoconf expects automake to support a --build-dir option during "make > dist". Automake doesn't support that option. I have the most recent CVS'ed > versions. This has been not working for some time now. Will this simple > problem be fixed