Re: autoconf option fun

2000-11-17 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 10:43:38AM +0100, Akim Demaille wrote: > I can't wait for Gary's M4 Me either =)O| Unfortunately, Rene has been too busy to reply to the half-dozen emails I have sent him in the last 4 or five months. Any thoughts on how I can get write access to the CVS repo on subversi

Re: autoconf option fun

2000-11-17 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Gary" == Gary V Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Gary> On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 10:43:38AM +0100, Akim Demaille wrote: >> I can't wait for Gary's M4 Gary> Me either =)O| Gary> Unfortunately, Rene has been too busy to reply to the half-dozen Gary> emails I have sent him in the last 4 or

Re: Where did the Cygwin and Mingw checks go?

2000-11-17 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Mo" == Mo DeJong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Mo> Whats the deal? That's the result of our hesitations about this issues, and the fact that we couldn't even come up with a precise definition of what EXEEXT and OBJEXT are. For a start: are they related to host, or to build? Once things ar

Re: Where did the Cygwin and Mingw checks go?

2000-11-17 Thread Eric Christopher
Akim Demaille wrote: > > > "Mo" == Mo DeJong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Mo> Whats the deal? > > That's the result of our hesitations about this issues, and the fact > that we couldn't even come up with a precise definition of what EXEEXT > and OBJEXT are. > > For a start: are they rel

Re: Where did the Cygwin and Mingw checks go?

2000-11-17 Thread Ralf Corsepius
Akim Demaille wrote: > > > "Mo" == Mo DeJong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Mo> Whats the deal? > > That's the result of our hesitations about this issues, and the fact > that we couldn't even come up with a precise definition of what EXEEXT > and OBJEXT are. > > For a start: are they rel

Re: autoconf 2.49 on UNICOS

2000-11-17 Thread Akim Demaille
| I'm trying to build autoconf on UNICOS 10, besides the sed issue, I | get these errors when running make check: | | ./semantics.m4:118: testing... | --- - Tue Nov 14 18:17:47 2000 | +++ stdout Tue Nov 14 18:17:47 2000 | @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ | #define SIZEOF_CHAR 1 | -#define SIZEOF_CHARCHAR

Re: Where did the Cygwin and Mingw checks go?

2000-11-17 Thread Ralf Corsepius
Eric Christopher wrote: > > Akim Demaille wrote: > > > > > "Mo" == Mo DeJong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Mo> Whats the deal? > > > > That's the result of our hesitations about this issues, and the fact > > that we couldn't even come up with a precise definition of what EXEEXT > > and

Re: Where did the Cygwin and Mingw checks go?

2000-11-17 Thread Mo DeJong
On 17 Nov 2000, Akim Demaille wrote: > > "Mo" == Mo DeJong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Mo> Whats the deal? > > That's the result of our hesitations about this issues, and the fact > that we couldn't even come up with a precise definition of what EXEEXT > and OBJEXT are. > > For a start

Re: autoconf option fun

2000-11-17 Thread René Seindal
Akim Demaille wrote: >> "Gary" == Gary V Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Gary> On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 10:43:38AM +0100, Akim Demaille wrote: > >>> I can't wait for Gary's M4 >> > > Gary> Me either =)O| > > Gary> Unfortunately, Rene has been too busy to reply to the half-d

err... this is odd

2000-11-17 Thread Mirar
The following autoconf code: AC_CHECK_FUNC(gettext, [AC_DEFINE(HAVE_GETTEXT)], AC_CHECK_LIB(intl, gettext, [LIBS="$LIBS -lintl" AC_DEFINE(HAVE_GETTEXT)], INTLIBS="" )) Seems to expand to: | echo "configure:2100: checking fo

Re: autoconf 2.49 on UNICOS

2000-11-17 Thread Johan Danielsson
Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Because I believe the definition I gave of it implied it was two > chars wide. But maybe I'm making wrong assumptions: The compiler can add internal and trailing padding. > My suspicion is that our test for GNUness of sed failed to diagnose > this is

Re: err... this is odd

2000-11-17 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Mirar" == Mirar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Mirar> autoconf (or autoheader?) also complains on the use of AF_UNIX Mirar> and AF_INET inside tested C code in configure.in, but it's kind Mirar> of hard to test socket code without using those #define's. This will be solved very soon. Sorry

Re: err... this is odd

2000-11-17 Thread Akim Demaille
| The following autoconf code: | AC_CHECK_FUNC(gettext, [AC_DEFINE(HAVE_GETTEXT)], | AC_CHECK_LIB(intl, gettext, [LIBS="$LIBS -lintl" | AC_DEFINE(HAVE_GETTEXT)], | INTLIBS="" )) Improperly quoted. AC_CHECK_FUNC(gettext,

Re: autoconf 2.49 on UNICOS

2000-11-17 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Johan" == Johan Danielsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Johan> xyz-xY Johan> I guess this means this it won't work. It means the test should have been ignored. I don't know why it has not been :( Could you try to see what happened? Rerun the corresponding debug.sh, and run `../autoupda

Re: AS_DIRNAME and expr

2000-11-17 Thread Paul Berrevoets
Akim: I'm curious as to how you plan to use this information. I got the impression that you were suggesting to use something like: expr foo : '\(bar\)' \| a : 'a\(\) but beware that this behaves on different machines: solaris$ expr foo : '\(bar\)' \| a : 'a\(\) 0 solaris$ linux$ expr foo : '\(ba