Re: Java for Autoconf (was: TODO list for release?)

2000-05-30 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Monday 29 May 2000, at 20 h 49, the keyboard of Mo DeJong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The Autoconf macro archive (http://research.cys.de/autoconf-archive/) has > > a number of Java macros already. ... > I just don't think they are the right way to go. Comments are always welcome. And sub

Re: TODO list for release?

2000-05-30 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On Mon, 29 May 2000, Mo DeJong wrote: > I already have some nice macros that can find JDK info for many > platforms as well as Kaffe. Where??? :) -- Peter Eisentraut Sernanders väg 10:115 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 75262 Uppsala http://yi.org/peter-e/Swede

Re: Java for Autoconf (was: TODO list for release?)

2000-05-30 Thread Paul Berrevoets
Mo DeJong wrote: > The thing I have noticed about open source projects is that the > only way to get things done is to decide on a goal and then do > 99% of the work needed to reach that goal. Other folks are happy to > make comments on the work you did or polish up the 1% you did wrong, > but no

Re: TODO list for release?

2000-05-30 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On May 29, 2000, Mo DeJong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How much interest would there be in adding Java to the > autoconf supported languages? It'd certainly be appreciated. But we have to be careful, since there are two (three?) kinds of Java compilers: those that translate Java source to byte

Re: TODO list for release?

2000-05-30 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Tuesday 30 May 2000, at 10 h 40, the keyboard of Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (Kopi) and `gcj -C', but determining the preference order is not easy. I choosed the political order: gcj and jikes are tested before JDK. > I, for one, have found packages that will build with som

Best way of dealing with program-generated files?

2000-05-30 Thread Diego Sevilla Ruiz
Hi all: I am planning to write a series of macros/utilities for dealing with ORB generated files. Each ORB generates a set of different files from an IDL file. I would like to integrate automatically the dependencies. The problem is that I cannot automatically generate makefile rules for the

Re: Best way of dealing with program-generated files?

2000-05-30 Thread Ruslan Shevchenko
Diego Sevilla Ruiz wrote: > > Hi all: > > I am planning to write a series of macros/utilities for > dealing with ORB generated files. Each ORB generates a set of > different files from an IDL file. I would like to integrate > automatically the dependencies. The problem is that I cannot > aut

Re: Best way of dealing with program-generated files?

2000-05-30 Thread Tom Tromey
> "Diego" == Diego Sevilla Ruiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Diego> IDL_DEPS(anyfile.idl) There was a discussion on this on the automake list in the past. I don't remember the outcome. I think the best approach would be to have an autoconf macro to find the IDL compiler, and then have that m

Problem with removal of AC_CHECK_TOOL_PREFIX and libtool

2000-05-30 Thread Mo DeJong
I just ran into a strange error when I tried to use the most recent version of autoconf to configure SDL. Here is the error: % autoconf autoconf: undefined macros: ***BUG in Autoconf--please report*** AC_CHECK_TOOL_PREFIX It seems that AC_CHECK_TOOL_PREFIX is getting called somewhere. mo(~/pro