On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 09:17:33AM +0200, Akim Demaille wrote:
> |
> | This patch makes autoconf prefer configure.gnu over configure when
> | configuring subdirectories; this is usefull if these subdirectories also
> | contain packages not using autoconf.
> |
> | This patch originates from the G
Back in December we agreed to move Autoconf to subversions,
but it was delayed, and seems not to have happened yet.
Can we move it now?
> We will stay with the --foo syntax for configure options. We should
> not change the configure syntax incompatibly unless there is a
> pressing need for a change.
Please reconsider. There is a pressing need for a change. People
currently have to use work-arounds such as:
| Let me take the example of a2ps. a2ps uses a configuration file which
| is installed in syscondir. To find it the path is hard coded in a2ps,
| and a natural means to do that would be
|
| AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED([A2PS_CONFIG_FILE], ["$sysconfdir/a2ps.cfg"])
|
| The natural way to
> "Richard" == Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Richard> Even a compatible change such as requiring all programs to
Richard> support the --foodir or --dir-foo syntax would be a hassle
Richard> for some programmers (those who don't use Autoconf), and the
Richard> change can take ye
|
| AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS_PRE(
| [LTLIBOBJS=`echo "X$LIBOBJS" | \
| sed "s/^X//;s/\\.$ac_objext /.lo /g;s/\\.$ac_objext\$/.lo/"
| AC_SUBST(LTLIBOBJS)])
|
Thanks Gary.
Personally I'm still very unhappy with \\.$ac_objext. After all,
someone might still have a .o
> "Gary" == Gary V Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Gary> In libtool.m4 in CVS HEAD, without this patch, the tests for
Gary> AC_EXEEXT and a couple of others are inserted at the beginning
Gary> of the generated configure script.
What version of Autoconf? 2.13 has a nasty bug in AC_REQU
| > We will stay with the --foo syntax for configure options. We should
| > not change the configure syntax incompatibly unless there is a
| > pressing need for a change.
|
| Please reconsider. There is a pressing need for a change. People
| currently have to use work-arou
> "Richard" == Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Richard> Back in December we agreed to move Autoconf to subversions,
Richard> but it was delayed, and seems not to have happened yet. Can
Richard> we move it now?
It's been there for months!
http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-
Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> please, tell me why you want that there are two different means to say
> the same thing? Why do you want both
>
> ./configure --prefix=/foo
> make
>
> and
>
> ./configure
> make prefix=/foo
>
> ?
>
> If the Makefile
| Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| > please, tell me why you want that there are two different means to say
| > the same thing? Why do you want both
| >
| > ./configure --prefix=/foo
| > make
| >
| > and
| >
| > ./configure
| > make prefix=/foo
| >
> "Thomas" == Thomas Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Thomas> On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 09:17:33AM +0200, Akim Demaille wrote:
>> | | This patch makes autoconf prefer configure.gnu over configure
>> when | configuring subdirectories; this is usefull if these
>> subdirectories also | contain p
Richard Stallman wrote:
>
> The most
> important example is when `configure' is re-run (which is not that
> uncommon; re-running `./config.status --recheck' when configure.in
> changes is becoming more and more common): any such variables set in
> the command line are lost i
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 12:22:24PM +0200, Akim Demaille wrote:
> > "Thomas" == Thomas Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Thomas> On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 09:17:33AM +0200, Akim Demaille wrote:
> >> | | This patch makes autoconf prefer configure.gnu over configure
> >> when | configuring su
> "Guido" == Guido Draheim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Guido> As the discussion does now lead a bit elsewhere, what about
Guido> second-level options, settable via VAR=VAL (or sth. alike)?
Guido> There was the discussion that for cross-compiling, people do
Guido> often have the needs to pres
Hi!
>--[Akim Demaille]--<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> | This patch makes autoconf prefer configure.gnu over configure when
> | configuring subdirectories; this is usefull if these subdirectories also
> | contain packages not using autoconf.
> I don't understand this `configure.gnu' stuff. Why is not
Akim Demaille wrote:
> See AC_ARG_VAR.
taken. ... then again, AC_CACHE_CHECK does not use it wouldn't that be okay?
Just again, what about a second-level options that go in another helpscreen, and,
well, in that respect, I do support your position to the point that the
current helpscreen is al
--- Thomas Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 12:22:24PM +0200, Akim Demaille wrote:
> > > "Thomas" == Thomas Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > Thomas> On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 09:17:33AM +0200, Akim Demaille wrote:
> > >> | | This patch makes autoconf prefer
On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> Uhm, IIRC Perl's use of configure was/is to make autoconf happy, and Configure
> was the actual script from a different configuration package, IIRC, Metaconf.
also known as 'dist', it's a year or two older than autoconf, was used in
elm and a number of o
> "Guido" == Guido Draheim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Guido> Akim Demaille wrote:
>> See AC_ARG_VAR.
Guido> taken. ... then again, AC_CACHE_CHECK does not use
Guido> it
I don't understand what you mean. I agree some high level macros such
as AC_CHECK_PROGS should document their first
On 11 Sep 2000, Akim Demaille wrote:
>
> | Let me take the example of a2ps. a2ps uses a configuration file which
> | is installed in syscondir. To find it the path is hard coded in a2ps,
> | and a natural means to do that would be
> |
> | AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED([A2PS_CONFIG_FILE],
>
> > John, thanks for the patch. Don't hesitate to send its siblings (that
> > of autoupdate, autoreconf, autoscan, autoheader and ifnames :) :) :)
>
> Here is a patch for the siblings. I also reverted the two `|| exit'
> commands in autoconf.sh to `|| { (exit 1); exit; }' because I had one
>
Thomas E Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> also known as 'dist', it's a year or two older than autoconf, was used
> in elm and a number of other packages whose configure scripts were
> written around 10 years ago.
> (autoconf is easier to read and doesn't require perl, but its builtin
> tests
Hello, Ian!
You made the following change in Autoconf:
Thu May 28 18:37:36 1998 Ian Lance Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(AC_TRY_CPP): Remove lines from stderr which contain only the name
of the file.
Do you remember what compiler produced such lines? I'm especially
interested whe
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 11:47:42AM +0200, Akim Demaille wrote:
> > "Gary" == Gary V Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Gary> In libtool.m4 in CVS HEAD, without this patch, the tests for
> Gary> AC_EXEEXT and a couple of others are inserted at the beginning
> Gary> of the generated config
On Sep 11, 2000, "Gary V. Vaughan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I don't actually see the point of making AC_PROG_LIBTOOL require
> _AC_PROG_LIBTOOL, so I figured I must be missing something...
The point is to avoid duplicate expansion of AC_PROG_LIBTOOL.
AC_REQUIRE was the simplest way to accom
--- "Lars J. Aas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 06:18:59AM -0700, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> : --- "Lars J. Aas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> : > I've started using AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR(aux) and stow away files into aux/.
> :
> : PORTABILITY Issue: aux should not be used as a direct
I've started using AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR(aux) and stow away files into aux/.
I've also tried to stow aclocal.m4 into that directory, which works fine with
"aclocal --output=aux/aclocal.m4", and using "-l | --localdir" options for
autoheader and autoconf. What is missing is the -l option for automake,
--- "Lars J. Aas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've started using AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR(aux) and stow away files into aux/.
PORTABILITY Issue: aux should not be used as a directory, filename or filename
part (i.e. aux, aux.foo or foo.aux) as it is treated as a device by DOS and
WIN32. If the directo
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 06:18:59AM -0700, Earnie Boyd wrote:
: --- "Lars J. Aas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: > I've started using AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR(aux) and stow away files into aux/.
:
: PORTABILITY Issue: aux should not be used as a directory, filename or filename
: part (i.e. aux, aux.foo or
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 06:18:59AM -0700, Earnie Boyd wrote:
: --- "Lars J. Aas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: > I've started using AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR(aux) and stow away files into aux/.
:
: PORTABILITY Issue: aux should not be used as a directory, filename or filename
: part (i.e. aux, aux.foo or
| Hi!
|
| This patch makes autoconf prefer configure.gnu over configure when
| configuring subdirectories; this is usefull if these subdirectories also
| contain packages not using autoconf.
|
| This patch originates from the GeekGadgets project
| (http://www.ninemoons.com/GG/).
I don't unders
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