Re: suggestion for AC_CHECK_SIZEOF

2000-05-26 Thread Akim Demaille
|On May 25, 2000, Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |> # AC_LANG_BOLL_COMPILE_TRY(PROLOGUE, EXPRESSION) | s/BOLL/BOOL/ Lps, thanks! Is this a LK?

Re: AC_CONFIG_LINKS($foo)

2000-05-26 Thread Linus Nordberg
Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote 25 May 2000 18:26:51 +0200: Is it really important for you to be able to use variables? Yes. We symlink a number of source files to the build directory. The number of files may vary for different targets. The source file name varies depending on wh

Re: suggestion for AC_CHECK_SIZEOF

2000-05-26 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On May 26, 2000, Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > |On May 25, 2000, Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > |> # AC_LANG_BOLL_COMPILE_TRY(PROLOGUE, EXPRESSION) > | s/BOLL/BOOL/ > Lps, thanks! > Is this a LK? I cluldn't find a patch anywhere. Was that supplsed

Re: suggestion for AC_CHECK_SIZEOF

2000-05-26 Thread Akim Demaille
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Re: suggestion for AC_CHECK_SIZEOF

2000-05-26 Thread Akim Demaille
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Re: suggestion for AC_CHECK_SIZEOF

2000-05-26 Thread Akim Demaille
Here is my proposal. Index: ChangeLog === RCS file: /cvs/autoconf/ChangeLog,v retrieving revision 1.652 diff -u -r1.652 ChangeLog --- ChangeLog 2000/05/26 09:42:13 1.652 +++ ChangeLog 2000/05/26 10:15:47 @@ -1,3 +1,20 @@ +200

Re: suggestion for AC_CHECK_SIZEOF

2000-05-26 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On May 26, 2000, Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > + Find a means to extract integers from the compiler. > + Use this technology to compute `sizeof' even when cross-compiling. > + Ideas and initial suggestion by Kaveh Ghazi. > + Binary search by Bruno Haible. Ok -- Ale

Re: header files in a subdir

2000-05-26 Thread Steven G. Johnson
> I've been all through all the info docs that came with autoconf but I > can't seem to find this one. How do I make my header files install in: > $prefix/include/ppd instead of just $prefix/include If "ppd" is the name of your package, then the standard way to do it is to list the headers under

TODO list for release?

2000-05-26 Thread Steven G. Johnson
In the spirit of the Linux 2.4 TODO list, I thought I'd raise the question of what is required before the next autoconf release. We all know that there have been a significant number of fixes and enhancements in the CVS sources that many projects would like to benefit from. What needs to be done

About AC_PROG_CC_STDC

2000-05-26 Thread Peter Eisentraut
First of all (answering a question in the Autoconf TODO), yes, this macro needs to be renamed. There are to date three C "standards", only counting those by ISO/ANSI. And there are also several ways of interpreting what "standard C" refers to: 1) the compiler understands "standard" syntax, e.g.,

Re: TODO list for release?

2000-05-26 Thread Steven G. Johnson
Okay, so there is a TODO list in the CVS archive that lists some items "required for 2.15." However... Is this list up-to-date? For one thing, many of the items listed there don't seem critical enough to hold up a release, especially as many are in autoconf 2.13 as well. Incidentally, one of t