> Why do you think `make install' should not install them in /etc?
Because `make install' is not supposed to install anything outside
--prefix. As I wrote before, people often install software as
non-root, and it's a nuisance when `make install' fails because the
software ina
Hello!
Ok folks, as suggested by Pavel, I modified the configure script (mainly it
consisted to add cp conftest.out save.out; exit).
Well this is the content of this file (the dashes are not part of the
file):
-
In file included from configure:2285:
/usr/include/curses.h:360:9: warnin
Hi,
this fixes a bug when running configure scripts with compilers which
generates object-files where the suffix is not the default ".o":
_AC_OBJEXT uses AC_COMPILE_IFELSE, but AC_COMPILE_IFELSE contains this
snippet of code
[...]
if AC_TRY_EVAL(ac_compile) && test -s conftest.$ac_objext
On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer wrote:
> /usr/include/curses.h:360:9: warning: "GCC_PRINTF" is not defined
> /usr/include/curses.h:366:9: warning: "GCC_SCANF" is not defined
> thing... The difference is in the -Wundef flag given to the preprocessor
> (gcc -E). Without it, the resu
[ On Wednesday, August 30, 2000 at 05:32:16 (-0600), Richard Stallman wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: HTML format documentation
>
> Here is an idea. Suppose that the default for sysconfdir were computed
> from the actual value of prefix, as follows:
>
> If prefix is `/usr', use `/etc'.
> Otherwi
On Aug 29, 2000, Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> `+' isn't a portable literal. Some implementations seem to use it as
>> a meta-character with the usual meaning, but without support for it
>> after `*'.
> Alexandre, could you be more exact?
No. I seem to recall some comments about
On Aug 29, 2000, Harlan Stenn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The docs for AC_LIBOBJ say (in part):
> Technically, it adds 'FUNCTION.$ac_objext' to ...
> If this is true, it may still be a bug. Perhaps it should add:
> 'FUNCTION$U.$ac_objext'
> because some folks will be using the ansi2k
