> "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Alexandre> On Apr 26, 2000, Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I
Alexandre> don't see any reason to do it. I'd rather keep both
Alexandre> `--host=TRIPLET' and plain `TRIPLET'.
>> The fact is that the two schemes were not eq
|From: Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|Date: 26 Apr 2000 18:41:32 +0200
|
|If you concentrate the measure on this very script, the performance
|penalty is frightening:
|
| It certainly is. This is a performance bug in mawk.
| I observed the bug in mawk 1.3.3.
|
| To work ar
> "Greg" == Greg A Woods <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Greg> Now I do have to ask what the purpose of that awk script could
Greg> possibly be, and why it has to do things the way it seems to
Greg> want to do them?
Removing useless blanks, replacing the quadrigraphs, and simulating
$LINENO.
On Apr 27, 2000, Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hm, what scripts are you thinking about?
Scripts that would run configure and install software, for example.
> And are you sure their authors will be happy to see their script
> still working, but doing something different?
Why would
> "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> And are you sure their authors will be happy to see their script
>> still working, but doing something different?
Alexandre> Why would they be doing something different?
I don't know too well, and I confess and don't want to :)
On Apr 27, 2000, Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Alexandre> You mean, because now they'd be considered to be cross
Alexandre> compiling? Hmm... I think I begin to understand why the
Alexandre> current implementation is a
Why does autoconf require another program to install? This other
program is not included in the CVS. The error message seems to
indicate that not having the program is not critical (
see the WARNING: message) but the "make install" fails
to run without the help2man program.
Updating man page auto
Hi,
What is the MANUFACTURER aka VENDOR field in a canonicalization triple
meant to contain?
My understanding is that it shall describe the vendor/manufacturer of a
board or better the board family, being used to guess/preset settings
for a specific setups, primarily in near-hardware packages (e
> "Mo" == Mo DeJong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Mo> Why does autoconf require another program to install?
Because you're referring to the CVS tarball, hence you shall be ready
to be in position of a maintainer. Autoconf, once completely packed,
will not require help2man.
Nevertheless, the
> "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Are you sure that's what the rule was?
Alexandre> That's what AC_CANONICAL_THING does. I didn't look at the
Alexandre> rules. But now that I read them, I see they're exactly
Alexandre> what's implemented, except that I didn't
>
> > "Mo" == Mo DeJong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Mo> Why does autoconf require another program to install?
>
> Because you're referring to the CVS tarball, hence you shall be ready
> to be in position of a maintainer. Autoconf, once completely packed,
> will not require help2m
--- Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Yup. I've found many packages whose config.guess would guess
> alphaev6-unknown-linux-gnu, but whose config.sub wouldn't accept
> alphaev6, so I had to manually `configure alpha-unknown-linux-gnu'.
> Of course, in these cases, it is the package
> "Earnie" == Earnie Boyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Earnie> Since you brought up this point, I've often wondered why
Earnie> configure isn't constructed such that it uses the
Earnie> config.[guess|sub] which has the most recent version.
First of all, there are still no easy means to comp
Hello, Akim!
> So now I think we can clearly state the question:
>
> Should an arg to configure be considered as a --build.
Since "configure --help" used to print
Usage: ./configure [OPTION]... [VAR=VALUE]... [HOST]
we should not change [HOST] to [BUILD] without concerns about backwar
Pavoin pavoin!
> "Pavel" == Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Pavel> Also look at this: $ ./configure a b configure: error: can only
Pavel> configure for one host and one target at a time
Pavel> "build" is not mentioned.
Yes, but that's correct when you take a look at the clumsy ru
> "Akim" == Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Akim> Nevertheless, the CVS repo is keeping all the files up to date, with
Akim> all the dependencies satisfied.
FYI, cvs doesn't preserve relative timestamps. This is one reason
that AM_MAINTAINER_MODE refuses to die.
Tom
> "Tom" == Tom Tromey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> "Akim" == Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Akim> Nevertheless, the CVS repo is keeping all the files up to date,
Akim> with all the dependencies satisfied.
Tom> FYI, cvs doesn't preserve relative timestamps.
OK, thanks.
Tom
[ On , April 27, 2000 at 10:37:28 (+0200), Akim Demaille wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: Performances of awk
>
> Removing useless blanks, replacing the quadrigraphs, and simulating
> $LINENO.
Ah, line numbers! I didn't notice that with older "configure" scripts
as input -- just the blanks and blank line
> -Original Message-
> From: Alexandre Oliva [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2000 6:00 AM
> To: Paul Berrevoets
> Cc: Peter Eisentraut; Ian Lance Taylor; [EMAIL PROTECTED];
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED];
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re:
From: Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 27 Apr 2000 01:06:14 -0300
On Apr 26, 2000, Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Alexandre> I don't see any reason to do it. I'd rather keep both
Alexandre> `--host=TRIPLET' and plain `TRIPLET'.
> The fact is that the two sc
On Apr 27, 2000, Bernard Dautrevaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Just "./configure --build=alpha-unknown-linux-gnu" as in fact you are
> building on an alpha-unknown-linux-gnu, and want a native compile...
This wouldn't have worked in the previous scheme, as it would still
try to guess the host
From: Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 27 Apr 2000 14:14:35 +0200
So now I think we can clearly state the question:
Should an arg to configure be considered as a --build.
I would vote no. I agree that this is not as bad as making a
configure argument be treated as -
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 13:52:53 +0200
From: Ralf Corsepius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
What is the MANUFACTURER aka VENDOR field in a canonicalization triple
meant to contain?
It normally contains the manufacturer or vendor of the hardware.
I am asking, because i386-pc-linux distributors
On Apr 27, 2000, Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Should an arg to configure be considered as a --build.
Alexandre> Yes, so that existing scripts can still run without
Alexandre> modification.
Not really. An arg to configure should be considered as the default
for --build, --
Hello!
>Imagine the consequences of:
>./configure --build=i386-suse-linux-gnu --host=i386-redhat-linux-gnu
It doesn't scare me :-)
You get what you are asking for.
> I think those configuration triplets are wrong. I think they should
> be something like `i386-pc-linuxsuse7.0-gnu' or
>
On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Pavel Roskin wrote:
>
> > I think those configuration triplets are wrong. I think they should
> > be something like `i386-pc-linuxsuse7.0-gnu' or
> > `i386-pc-linux-gnususe7.0'.
>
> It it not better. "linux" should have the kernel version at the end, as
> this is much more
I won't have time to look at this until this weekend.
I will respond with at least an explanation sometime this weekend.
--
Mike
On Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 10:36:24AM +0200, Akim Demaille wrote:
>
> |From: Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> |Date: 26 Apr 2000 18:41:32 +0200
> |
> |
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