Re: Forbidden strings

2000-11-06 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I'd rather take almost the full range and except AR if we need to. Alexandre> I'd prefer that the maintainers of autoconf weren't so Alexandre> greedy about prefixes :-) In fact my position (let's take the full range) is also b

Re: Forbidden strings

2000-11-06 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Pavel" == Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Pavel> Autoconf could also check configure with "sh -n" - it may be Pavel> more effective than scanning for macros, although some Pavel> constructs will not be caught. No really, `sh -n' is way too weak, it can only catch very obvious mis

RE: Forbidden strings

2000-11-06 Thread Bernard Dautrevaux
> -Original Message- > From: Akim Demaille [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, November 06, 2000 10:58 AM > To: Alexandre Oliva > Cc: Pavel Roskin; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Forbidden strings > > > > "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: automatic setting of srcdir

2000-11-06 Thread Lars J. Aas
On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 07:48:33PM -0600, John A. Crow wrote: : All - : : I am using autoconf-2.13. : : It looks to me from my experiments that by default the srcdir : output variable is set to its relative path name. That is, if I do : :./configure : : I will get @srcdir@ replaced with

RE: automatic setting of srcdir

2000-11-06 Thread Bernard Dautrevaux
> -Original Message- > From: Lars J. Aas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, November 06, 2000 2:11 PM > To: John A. Crow > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: automatic setting of srcdir > > > On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 07:48:33PM -0600, John A. Crow wrote: > : All - > : > : I am

RE: automatic setting of srcdir

2000-11-06 Thread Thomas E. Dickey
On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Bernard Dautrevaux wrote: > Or simpler: > > srcdir="`cd $srcdir; pwd`" there are environments where this doesn't work properly (when $CDPATH is set). -- T.E.Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://dickey.his.com ftp://dickey.his.com

Re: automatic setting of srcdir

2000-11-06 Thread Lars J. Aas
On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 09:17:30AM -0500, Thomas E. Dickey wrote: : On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Bernard Dautrevaux wrote: : > srcdir="`cd $srcdir; pwd`" : : there are environments where this doesn't work properly (when $CDPATH is : set). Weird. Doesn't autoconf try to disable (unset) $CDPATH? Anyways,

Re: autoconf option fun

2000-11-06 Thread Bruce Korb
Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > This indicates that autoconf's option parsing doesn't evaluate the > '--'es correctly, ... May I fix it? :-)

Re: autoconf option fun

2000-11-06 Thread Pavel Roskin
Hello, Ralf! > # autoconf --add-missing > autoconf: option `--add-missing' requires an argument It's my bug. I'll fix it. Thank you for the report. Regards, Pavel Roskin

Re: Forbidden strings

2000-11-06 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Nov 6, 2000, Earnie Boyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why not just prefix the reserved autoconf variables with a `_' > character? autoconf used to use just AC_/ac_. Now, it's claiming ownership of all of A?_. That looks a little bit exagerated to me. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana',

Re: Forbidden strings

2000-11-06 Thread Earnie Boyd
--- Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So, how about something like a special comment/macro stating what are > the *words* that are allowed. Something like > > m4_accept_literals([AR_FLAGS], [lt_cv_AR_FLAGS]) > > then autoconf.sh would just gather these guys, and say nothing about >