On 2021-01-05, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> Something I found which surprised me is that Automake has added a GNU
> COPYING file to my non-GNU non-GPL package. Once the file appeared in
> the source directory, it seems that it continued to be used and
> included in spite of the Automake options provi
On Tue, 5 Jan 2021, Zack Weinberg wrote:
Something I found which surprised me is that Automake has added a GNU
COPYING file to my non-GNU non-GPL package. Once the file appeared in
the source directory, it seems that it continued to be used and
included in spite of the Automake options provide
On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 8:43 AM Bob Friesenhahn
wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Jan 2021, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> >>
> >> Something which surprises me is that the distribution tarballs became
> >> noticeably larger.
> >
> > This is expected. The bulk of the increase is probably due to the test
> > programs used
On Mon, 4 Jan 2021, Zack Weinberg wrote:
Something which surprises me is that the distribution tarballs became
noticeably larger.
This is expected. The bulk of the increase is probably due to the test
programs used to probe for C and/or C++ 2011 support in the compilers.
There were also some f
On Mon, Jan 4, 2021 at 9:08 PM Bob Friesenhahn
wrote:
> I am pretty close to done with updating GraphicsMagick to use the
> recommended Autoconf and Automake initialization syntax. Thanks again
> for your help.
>
> Something which surprises me is that the distribution tarballs became
> noticeably
Hi Bob,
On Mon, 4 Jan 2021, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> The .tar.gz package increased from 9,675,006 to 9,683,225 bytes (8,219 bytes
> difference when compressed). Perhaps it is not much but the size difference
> seems large given that only 23 lines of original source code were added.
Forget to
Zack,
I am pretty close to done with updating GraphicsMagick to use the
recommended Autoconf and Automake initialization syntax. Thanks again
for your help.
Something which surprises me is that the distribution tarballs became
noticeably larger.
The .tar.gz package increased from 9,675,00
On Sun, 3 Jan 2021, Zack Weinberg wrote:
The trick here is that these shell commands will be executed when you
run autoconf, *not* when you run configure. And you have to run
autoconf with the current working directory equal to the top of the
source tree *anyway*. So the answer is ". will be t
On Sun, Jan 3, 2021 at 6:01 PM Bob Friesenhahn
wrote:
>
> AC_INIT(m4_esyscmd([./version.sh packagename]),
> m4_esyscmd([./version.sh packageversion]),
> m4_esyscmd([./version.sh packagebugreport]))
>
> This works fine when building in the source directory.
>
> The problem I am en
