Re: Problems with "exit"

> "Pavel" == Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Pavel> Hello! The problem with FreeBSD ignoring "exit 77" can be Pavel> reproduced on "the other OS :-)" using zsh. Pavel> configure.in: AC_INIT exit 59 AC_OUTPUT(Makefile) Pavel> $ export PS1 $ autoconf $ bash configure; echo $? 59 $

Re: Success (mostly) with the testsuite

> "Paul" == Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Paul> I assume you removed all the "p"s, and not just the last one. Yep, I did. I think we are going to drop the `expr' branch. BSDI's `expr' is so deeply broken that it hides it successes, which results in twice the dirname. Pfff. This

Re: Success (mostly) with the testsuite

On Oct 25, 2000, Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> "Daniele" == Daniele Arena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Daniele> That actually brings a "philosophical" question I always Daniele> wanted to ask to GNU people (RMS, are you there?:); and that Daniele> is, how far goes the support fo

RE: Why is srcdir passed as .

> -Original Message- > From: Mo DeJong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2000 12:41 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Why is srcdir passed as . > > > On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Ben Woodard wrote: > > > I am having a problem with my configure script where when >

Re: Adding new machines to config.sub

On Oct 25, 2000, Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> "Alexander" == Alexander Thiel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >writes: Alexander> Is there a patched version of config.sub, or do you want me Alexander> update it and send in the diffs. > See the module `config' on subversions.gnu.org ... o

Re: Success (mostly) with the testsuite

On Oct 25, 2000, Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> "Daniele" == Daniele Arena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Daniele> This one seemed to be working better... At least it gave no Daniele> errors on exit and it did create a Makefile. Hope it's fixed? > OK, then the problem is that your

Re: Why is srcdir passed as .

On Oct 25, 2000, Ben Woodard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am having a problem with my configure script where when configure is > called for the subprojects a parameter --srcdir=. is passed into them > when I just do configure. srcdir is supposed to be the top-level directory of the project (or

Re: Success (mostly) with the testsuite

| On Oct 25, 2000, Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | >> "Daniele" == Daniele Arena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Daniele> This one seemed to be working better... At least it gave no | Daniele> errors on exit and it did create a Makefile. Hope it's fixed? | | > OK, then the problem i

Re: Success (mostly) with the testsuite

On Oct 26, 2000, Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yep, I did. I think we are going to drop the `expr' branch. Yep. We've had too much trouble with `expr' so far. Maybe we could test whether `expr' works for us, and set `expr=false' if it doesn't, then use $expr... -- Alexandre Oli

Re: Success (mostly) with the testsuite

> "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Alexandre> On Oct 26, 2000, Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Yep, I did. I think we are going to drop the `expr' branch. Alexandre> Yep. We've had too much trouble with `expr' so far. Alexandre> Maybe we could test wh

Re: Why is srcdir passed as .

On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 10:24:05AM +0200, Bernard Dautrevaux wrote: : Mo on the contrary is bothered by the fact that $srcdir is relative; just : calling "./configure -srcdir=/absolute/path/to/srcdir" shoudl solve the : problem. I assume $srcdir is found from $0 on configure invocation, so using

Re: More macro dispatching

In order to properly implement the proposal of Alexandre (expr=false when we can't trust it), more responsibility should be moved into Mash, in particular things like _AC_INIT_PREPARE_ENVIRONMENT. It is a good thing, it is independent from Autoconf and useful to any Mash project (understand `aut

Re: Why is srcdir passed as .

On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, Lars J. Aas wrote: > On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 10:24:05AM +0200, Bernard Dautrevaux wrote: > : Mo on the contrary is bothered by the fact that $srcdir is relative; just > : calling "./configure -srcdir=/absolute/path/to/srcdir" shoudl solve the > : problem. > > I assume $srcdi

RE: Why is srcdir passed as .

> -Original Message- > From: Thomas E. Dickey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2000 2:36 PM > To: Lars J. Aas > Cc: Bernard Dautrevaux; 'Mo DeJong'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Why is srcdir passed as . > > > On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, Lars J. Aas wrote: > > > On

RE: More macro dispatching

> -Original Message- > From: Akim Demaille [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2000 2:35 PM > To: APatche; Autoconf List > Subject: Re: More macro dispatching > > > > In order to properly implement the proposal of Alexandre (expr=false > when we can't trust it), mor

Re: Why is srcdir passed as .

> "Thomas" == Thomas E Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Thomas> Is it true (for a shell) that $0 is always a full pathname? Thomas> (it could be a relative one, which complicates things a Thomas> little). I've never met any counterexample. A brand lot scripts out there use it.

Re: Why is srcdir passed as .

On 26 Oct 2000, Akim Demaille wrote: > > "Thomas" == Thomas E Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Thomas> Is it true (for a shell) that $0 is always a full pathname? > Thomas> (it could be a relative one, which complicates things a > Thomas> little). > > I've never met any counterexample

Re: Success (mostly) with the testsuite

It would really help if someone who has an access to an Ultrix could run the following guy. That's the main reason why there is no 2.49b release. If someone knows somebody who has an access, please denunciate her :) Better yet, if someone knows a means to have an ssh account on an Ultrix machi

Re: Why is srcdir passed as .

> "Thomas" == Thomas E Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Thomas> $0 is a full pathname if that's the way the script was invoked Thomas> (I assume that's what you are saying - if it was not invoked Thomas> with a full pathname, it really depends on the shell that was Thomas> used to look up t

Re: Success (mostly) with the testsuite

Akim, Have a chat to the folks at www.rtr.com They advertise a Dec Ultix as part of their porting center. See http://www.rtr.com/newrtr/Porting01.htm Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] We used the porting center in the past until we had the machines we used there in house. Regards David Akim Demail

Re: Success (mostly) with the testsuite

> "David" == David Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: David> Akim, Have a chat to the folks at www.rtr.com David> They advertise a Dec Ultix as part of their porting center. David> See http://www.rtr.com/newrtr/Porting01.htm Wow! Nice url! But it's not free :( I'll try though if there i

Re: Why is srcdir passed as .

On 26 Oct 2000, Akim Demaille wrote: > > "Thomas" == Thomas E Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Thomas> $0 is a full pathname if that's the way the script was invoked > Thomas> (I assume that's what you are saying - if it was not invoked > Thomas> with a full pathname, it really depends

Yet Another Failed Check

Hi Autoconfers, I'm slowly but steadily proceeding in makechecking autoconf on whatever machine I can get hold of, during my spare minutes...:) You told me to report any failed checks, so here are a couple of them on a RISC running AIX 4.3.3 , with the CVS version checked out this afternoon. The

Re: Why is srcdir passed as .

You're right. I'm actually referring to a PATH resolution. ~ % PATH=/tmp:$PATH thomas.shnostromo 18:25 /tmp/thomas.sh /tmp/thomas.sh param ...done

Re: Yet Another Failed Check

Thanks for the report. Actually none is really grave. The failure of test 28 is known, we just have to decide how we want to fix it ---which is currently being discussed. The failure of test 66 just demonstrates that AC_FUNC_MMAP forgets to clean its test file, which will fix shortly. Thanks!

Re: Success (mostly) with the testsuite

On Oct 25, 2000, Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there anybody here with an Ultrix who could run the script I sent? > There are Ultrices at Cygnus, right? There is at least one Ultrix box in Red Hat's Sunnyvale office, yes. Unfortunately, for some reason, I've been unable to log in

`' quotes in messages (was Re: Success (mostly) with the testsuite)

Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > test -f "$f" || { echo "configure: error: cannot find input file \\\`$f'" >>&2; exit 1; } [snip] > Maybe we should set ac_backquote and ac_singlequote upfront, and use > it in error messages instead? On a tangent, do we still want to use

Re: Success (mostly) with the testsuite

On Oct 25, 2000, Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there anybody here with an Ultrix who could run the script I sent? > There are Ultrices at Cygnus, right? Yep, got it. There you go: nl= tab= space= IFS= foo=One line bar=Two lines + echo Direct use Direct use + echo {On

Re: Why is srcdir passed as .

> I think there is two problems here: > > Ben seems to use $srcdir where it meant $top_srcdir :-) (If we build > in-place, then $srcdir == $builddir in all the tree). > > Mo on the contrary is bothered by the fact that $srcdir is relative; just > calling "./configure -srcdir=/absolute/path/to/sr

Re: Why is srcdir passed as .

On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, Ben Woodard wrote: > > I think there is two problems here: > > > > Ben seems to use $srcdir where it meant $top_srcdir :-) (If we build > > in-place, then $srcdir == $builddir in all the tree). > > > > Mo on the contrary is bothered by the fact that $srcdir is relative; jus

Re: Why is srcdir passed as .

> On Oct 25, 2000, Ben Woodard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I am having a problem with my configure script where when configure is > > called for the subprojects a parameter --srcdir=. is passed into them > > when I just do configure. > > srcdir is supposed to be the top-level directory of t

Re: `' quotes in messages (was Re: Success (mostly) with the testsuite)

Raja R Harinath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On a tangent, do we still want to use `...' quotes? The latest XFree86 > fonts do not show these as symmetric open and close quotes. The "`" is > more slanted, and the "'" looks like on the PC (a vertical quote, which > can be used for both open and

Re: Why is srcdir passed as .

On Oct 26, 2000, Mo DeJong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > They will want to run: > ./configure ; make install > and expect it to work, and why shouldn't they? Works for me. When doesn't it work for you? Did you read my other message in this thread? -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see ht

Re: Why is srcdir passed as .

On Oct 26, 2000, Ben Woodard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ac_configure_args="${ac_configure_args} --enable-local-tdb=${srcdir}/tdb" This is just plain wrong in case srcdir is a relative pathname. The problem isn't the `.' special-case, the problem is that this assumes ${srcdir} is absolute.

Re: `' quotes in messages

From: Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 26 Oct 2000 17:05:05 -0700 > On a tangent, do we still want to use `...' quotes? See for an extensive argument on this subject which convinced me, even though I'm really annoyed by it.