Re: How do I exit if headers/libraries are missing.??????

2001-04-22 Thread Steven G. Johnson
By the way, that should have been AC_MSG_ERROR, not AC_ERROR. On Sun, 22 Apr 2001, David Kirkby wrote: > Thanks for that. I'll take a look at your macro too.

Re: Autoconf Logo?

2001-04-22 Thread Lars J. Aas
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 11:39:43AM -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: : (Fascinating goat fact: the Angora goat produces the fiber called : mohair; the fiber called angora comes from rabbits). While we're on the subject of fascinating goat facts... :) http://slashdot.org/science/01/02/08/2215253.sht

Trace shows second argument to AC_SUBST

2001-04-22 Thread Peter Eisentraut
I just tried out the new trace facility on Autoconf's own configure.in: $ ./autoconf --trace=AC_SUBST configure.in and got some lines like configure.in:8:AC_SUBST:AUTOTEST_PATH:m4_default([..], [.]) configure.in:9:AC_SUBST:EXPR:$ac_cv_path_EXPR configure.in:15:AC_SUBST:M4:$ac_cv_path_M4 Where

Re: macro doc inconsistencies

2001-04-22 Thread Gary V . Vaughan
On Sunday 22 April 2001 12:55 pm, Lars J. Aas wrote: > On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 09:02:15PM +0100, Gary V . Vaughan wrote: > : On Sunday 15 April 2001 4:00 pm, Lars J. Aas wrote: > : > If we could merge the macro reference documentation with the m4 files > : > and get it extracted automatically, it

Re: macro doc inconsistencies

2001-04-22 Thread Lars J. Aas
On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 06:27:34PM +0100, Gary V . Vaughan wrote: : On Sunday 22 April 2001 12:55 pm, Lars J. Aas wrote: : > I was thinking m4 would be the most suitable language to implement this in. : : Now that you mention it, having a document macro seems like a better idea, : though you wou

security vs. configure

2001-04-22 Thread Tom Holroyd
Hi. I'm curious what folks here think about the issue of security in configure scripts. We all know the hazards of downloading and running random programs from the internet (especially binaries), but many people often download and run "configure" and of course the app being configured. This pro

Re: security vs. configure

2001-04-22 Thread Russ Allbery
Tom Holroyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What do you think? Is this a configure problem or should it be left to > "packagers"? Can configure include tools that make such integrity > verification easier (and automatic)? For example, "make dist" or > whatever could always create a GPG-signed fi

Re: Possible patch for autoconf?

2001-04-22 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Apr 20, 2001, Daniel Carroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a somewhat unusal C compiler and version > of unix that is giving me problems with a configure > script (using Autoconf 2.13). Try autoconf 2.49e, it's supposed to work with compilers that print stuff when run. -- Alexandr

Re: macro doc inconsistencies

2001-04-22 Thread Lars J. Aas
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 09:02:15PM +0100, Gary V . Vaughan wrote: : On Sunday 15 April 2001 4:00 pm, Lars J. Aas wrote: : > If we could merge the macro reference documentation with the m4 files and : > get it extracted automatically, it would be a breeze to keep the doc : > consistent with the im

Re: Autoconf Logo?

2001-04-22 Thread Lars J. Aas
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 02:52:08PM +0200, Lars J. Aas wrote: : I'm thinking of something to stick on the web pages... I've played a bit with a new layout with a left-hand-side menu legend, kind of like what you find on http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/>. The pages are generated with m4 from temp