Re: DJGPP testsuite results

2000-06-07 Thread Akim Demaille
| A unified solution is certainly desirable. But perhaps we should find | out how urgent a solution to this problem is before you decide to take | on this problem for the next release. DJGPP's Bash has a solution | (TEST_FINDS_EXE as mentioned), Cygwin (I've been told) has a similiar | solution,

Re: Are AC_EXEEXT and AC_OBJEXT called by default?

2000-06-07 Thread Akim Demaille
| I was looking back at the ChangeLog when I noticed this: | 2000-05-23 Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | Simplify the interface: users shouldn't need to explicitly check | for special environments. | | * acspecific.m4 (AC_EXEEXT, AC_OBJEXT): AU defined to |

Re: Problem with AC_OUTPUT macro

2000-06-07 Thread Akim Demaille
| PROCESS_FILES="Makefile src/Makefile" | | AC_OUTPUT([$PROCESS_FILES]) Hm, do you really depend upon this? You're out of the Automake law. Sure we can (should?, hm, I miss Alexandre :) re enable it, but it seems like a bad idea. A better idea is if aldjaslkdj; then AC_CONFIG_FILES(src1/Ma

Is anyone else seeing this strange autoconf error?

2000-06-07 Thread Mo DeJong
I have seen this error a number of times, but it does not seem to be reproducible. Has anyone run into anything like this using the CVS version of autoconf? It seems to happen during this Macro eval: AC_CHECK_HEADERS(ctype.h time.h float.h) ./configure ... checking for time.h... yes checking for

[patch] automake: m4/depout.m4

2000-06-07 Thread Lars J. Aas
Hi, We had some problems with getting our Coin project compiled on Cygwin, which we traced back to some "^M"-characters that weren't removed from directory- and file-names when the dependeny tracking files were about to be created at the end of the config.status run. The following patch made t

Re: [patch] automake: m4/depout.m4

2000-06-07 Thread Thomas E. Dickey
On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Lars J. Aas wrote: > We had some problems with getting our Coin project compiled on Cygwin, > which we traced back to some "^M"-characters that weren't removed from > directory- and file-names when the dependeny tracking files were about > to be created at the end of the confi

Re: [patch] automake: m4/depout.m4

2000-06-07 Thread Lars J. Aas
On Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 08:34:47AM -0400, Thomas E. Dickey wrote: : one place to look is whether someone mounted the disk that's used for : the build with a binary option (if it's mounted in binary mode, Cygwin : puts ^M's on the ends of lines of "text" files). Mounting? There's more to cygwin t

Re: [patch] automake: m4/depout.m4

2000-06-07 Thread Earnie Boyd
--- "Thomas E. Dickey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Lars J. Aas wrote: > > > We had some problems with getting our Coin project compiled on Cygwin, > > which we traced back to some "^M"-characters that weren't removed from > > directory- and file-names when the dependeny track

FLIBS (AC_F77_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS) in CVS

2000-06-07 Thread Paul Martinolich
I am using the Absoft F77 Compiler for Linux since it can handle Fortran structures and I've run into a problem using AC_F77_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS in the CVS autoconf as of June 6th. I had used an earlier CVS version from around last Decemeber which worked fine, but I don't have that copy anymore... so

Re: FLIBS (AC_F77_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS) in CVS

2000-06-07 Thread Akim Demaille
Could you send the man page? Or a --help? And the config.log from the CVS Autoconf's configure. Thanks! Akim

Re: DJGPP testsuite results

2000-06-07 Thread Mark E.
> IIUC, everything is fine, isn't it? Relative fine anyway. Any other folks can hack their shell port to let 'test - f prog' return true for 'test -f prog.exe' (assuming test is builtin in to the shell they port). > Puke puke puke! Bloody colons in file names :( I'm surprised that > the `autoc

Re: HAVE_FOO or HAVE_WORKING_FOO

2000-06-07 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Akim Demaille writes: > I think Autoconf should advocate a single approach. Yup. > Also, is `HAVE_WORKING_FOO' the right naming scheme? Is it powerful > enough to allow us the specify the various brokenness that this or > that function may have? Should HAVE_WORKING_FOO always be the `or' of

Re: [patch] automake: m4/depout.m4

2000-06-07 Thread Lars J. Aas
On Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 07:04:55AM -0700, Earnie Boyd wrote: : --- "Thomas E. Dickey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : > On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Lars J. Aas wrote: : > > The following patch made the configure script work, but one should : > > probably find out how the ^M characters were introduced and fix

Re: [patch] automake: m4/depout.m4

2000-06-07 Thread Earnie Boyd
--- "Lars J. Aas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 07:04:55AM -0700, Earnie Boyd wrote: > : --- "Thomas E. Dickey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > : > On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Lars J. Aas wrote: > : > > The following patch made the configure script work, but one should > : > > probably

Re: FLIBS (AC_F77_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS) in CVS

2000-06-07 Thread Akim Demaille
| configure:1039: /usr/absoft/bin/f77 -o conftest conftest.f >&5 | FORTRAN 77 Compiler 4.5, Copyright (c) 1987-1999, Absoft Corp. Hm, are you telling us that your compiler is always outputting something when it compiles? cat >conftest.f

Re: FLIBS (AC_F77_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS) in CVS

2000-06-07 Thread Paul Martinolich
> | configure:1039: /usr/absoft/bin/f77 -o conftest conftest.f >&5 > | FORTRAN 77 Compiler 4.5, Copyright (c) 1987-1999, Absoft Corp. > > Hm, are you telling us that your compiler is always outputting > something when it compiles? Yes. I get tons of them during a make command. $ /usr/absoft

Re: HAVE_FOO or HAVE_WORKING_FOO

2000-06-07 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: pe> "Working" is a fairly volatile term. free() "works" if it frees pe> memory. If it doesn't grok null pointers, that's an unfortunate pe> circumstance but not necessarily "not working" by all standards. Actually, not so. All the C standard

Re: FLIBS (AC_F77_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS) in CVS

2000-06-07 Thread Paul Martinolich
$ more config.log This file contains any messages produced by compilers while running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake. It was created by configure 2.14a, executed with > ../configure configure:595: checking for gcc configure:617: result: gcc configure:709: checking wh

Re: DJGPP testsuite results

2000-06-07 Thread Mark E.
> + ../autoupdate -m .. - > c:/djgpp/tmp/au16317/input.m4:44: c:/djgpp/bin/m4.exe: Cannot open > [c:/djgpp/tmp/au16317/m4.m4]: No such file or directory (ENOENT) > c:/djgpp/tmp/au16317/input.m4:44: c:/djgpp/bin/m4.exe: Cannot open After playing with generated temporary files, it seems like a pr

Re: FLIBS (AC_F77_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS) in CVS

2000-06-07 Thread Steven G. Johnson
Akim wrote: >Also, what the heck is doing this: > >| configure:1069: /usr/absoft/bin/f77 -E conftest.fpp >| conftest.fpp:2: >| yes >| ^ >| Non-numeric character at (^) in label field [info -f g77 M LEX] >| configure:1075: result: no That's in _AC_PROG_F77_GNU >in the log file? The `[i

Re: FLIBS (AC_F77_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS) in CVS

2000-06-07 Thread Steven G. Johnson
I wrote: >Absoft's compiler apparently falls into (4). This is fine; the test gives >the correct result: he's not using g77. Whoops, oh I see. Absoft falls into case (6): compiler doesn't recognize .fpp, and "helpfully" passes the buck to another compiler (g77), but without the -E flag. Hence

Re: FLIBS (AC_F77_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS) in CVS

2000-06-07 Thread Steven G. Johnson
Paul Martinolich wrote: >According to their documentation, .fpp is not a valid extension, so >maybe they default to g77 in this case. They use .F for preprocessed >FORTRAN. If I use .F, then I get a usage error (for -E). I've never heard of anyone using .fpp either, and .F is fairly standard (a

RE: mixed native/cross-compiled package howto?

2000-06-07 Thread Bernard Dautrevaux
> -Original Message- > From: Akim Demaille [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2000 9:56 AM > To: Ossama Othman > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: mixed native/cross-compiled package howto? > > | > | BTW, Akim and Paul, this is one example where I can see