Re: Broken system web pages - ideas?

2003-09-23 Thread L. D. Marks
Let me expand slightly on my concept, by giving three (trivial?) suggestions for what could be included: a) Check that gcc, g++ and g77 are all the same version. b) At least for Linux, check that /etc/ld.so.conf contains /usr/local/lib, then run /sbin/ldconfig -v and check that there are not any b

Re: Broken system web pages - ideas?

2003-09-23 Thread Kevin Ryde
"L. D. Marks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > 2) Duplicate, and inconsistent gcc/g++/g77 compilers The c++ compiler for some reason always seems a good candidate for breakage on systems I see. I think bad installations are outside the scope of autoconf, but you can always have configure che

Re: Broken system web pages - ideas?

2003-09-23 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
"L. D. Marks" wrote: > > While testing a package on a number of systems, it > has become clear to me that they are often "broken" > in non-obvious ways. As just two examples that I > have come across: > 1) Users not having permissions to shared libraries > 2) Duplicate, and inconsi

Broken system web pages - ideas?

2003-09-23 Thread L. D. Marks
While testing a package on a number of systems, it has become clear to me that they are often "broken" in non-obvious ways. As just two examples that I have come across: 1) Users not having permissions to shared libraries 2) Duplicate, and inconsistent gcc/g++/g77 compilers Has any

Re: web pages

2001-04-17 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Lars" == Lars J Aas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Lars> Done. It got on the web immediately. The garbled mailinglist Lars> addresses looks strange (I'll make them more readable). I hope Lars> we all agree that they should be garbled to avoid spam on the Lars> lists? Do what you think is

Re: web pages

2001-04-17 Thread Lars J. Aas
On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 04:00:23PM +0200, Akim Demaille wrote: : > "Lars" == Lars J Aas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : Lars> The information pertains to Autoconf 2.50, so it shouldn't be : Lars> commited before Autoconf 2.50 is released. Should I commit this : Lars> as a separate file (autocon

Re: web pages

2001-04-17 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Lars" == Lars J Aas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Lars> Here is what I've done so far. Comments are welcome. I will Lars> add subscription information in the mailing list section, just Lars> haven't done it yet. Thanks Lars! Nice patch. Lars> The information pertains to Autoconf 2.50, s

Re: web pages

2001-04-17 Thread Lars J. Aas
Here is what I've done so far. Comments are welcome. I will add subscription information in the mailing list section, just haven't done it yet. The information pertains to Autoconf 2.50, so it shouldn't be commited before Autoconf 2.50 is released. Should I commit this as a separate file (auto

web pages

2001-04-16 Thread Lars J. Aas
On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 02:00:32PM +0200, Akim Demaille wrote: : Help is wanted on the documentation, and nothing else. OK, I got the www.gnu.org web-pages finally checked out, and I'm willing to do some updating. The repository contains three copies of the same file: index