Re: AC_CANONICAL_*

2001-02-11 Thread Pavel Roskin
Hello, Derek! On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Derek R. Price wrote: > Why do the AC_CANONICAL_* functions no longer set *_alias? There's a "cvs annotate" and "cvs log" are your friends. Akim did it. But the log message is silent about "FIXME". Akim? I believe it should be safe to remove "dnl". Regards,

DOS pathnames

2001-02-11 Thread John Poltorak
Does AUTOCONF provide support for DOS pathnames? ie drive letters, '\' in directories and ';' as separators in paths? -- John

RE: DOS pathnames

2001-02-11 Thread Tim Van Holder
> Does AUTOCONF provide support for DOS pathnames? ie drive letters, > '\' in directories and ';' as separators in paths? It's starting to. The current CVS autoconf has had several patches applied for better DOS support. It's not quite perfect yet, but a LOT better than stock 2.13. Tim Van Hold

Small autoreconf patch (was Re: Patch 3 of 4: Avoid 8+3 filename trouble)

2001-02-11 Thread Tim Van Holder
> > * remake-hdr.am (@STAMP@): Use .T as suffix for the > > temporary file. > > You should probably patch autoconf's autoreconf too. What part would need patching? AFAICS, it does not use names with multiple dots or with conflicting 8+3 names. The only changes my local autoreconf current

Re: Small autoreconf patch (was Re: Patch 3 of 4: Avoid 8+3 filename trouble)

2001-02-11 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Feb 11, 2001, "Tim Van Holder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >* remake-hdr.am (@STAMP@): Use .T as suffix for the >> >temporary file. >> >> You should probably patch autoconf's autoreconf too. > What part would need patching? The one that choose stamp file names like those created b

Re: Small autoreconf patch

2001-02-11 Thread Tim Van Holder
>> >* remake-hdr.am (@STAMP@): Use .T as suffix for the >> >temporary file. >> >> You should probably patch autoconf's autoreconf too. > > > What part would need patching? > > The one that choose stamp file names like those created by automake. Right - I hadn't noticed this: stamp