Re: security vs. configure

2001-04-23 Thread Michael Still
On 23 Apr 2001, Russ Allbery wrote: > 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

Re: security vs. configure

2001-04-23 Thread Russ Allbery
Michael Still <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Autoconf could run gnupg / pgp (if present) after generating the > configure script and produce a checksum on the script. If this was a > default action, then it would increase the chance of developers having > at least some checksumming. Better to sig

Re: security vs. configure

2001-04-23 Thread Tom Holroyd
On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Michael Still wrote: > Autoconf could run gnupg / pgp (if present) after generating the configure > script and produce a checksum on the script. If this was a default action, > then it would increase the chance of developers having at least some > checksumming. > > It doesn't

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Re: Trace shows second argument to AC_SUBST

2001-04-23 Thread Akim Demaille
> 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

Re: Autoconf 2.49e

2001-04-23 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Alexandre> On Apr 20, 2001, Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The code is absolutely frozen, this is our release candidate. We >> still have much freedom on the documentation, of course. Alexandre> Please tag the tree as

Re: Perl vs Scheme vs ML vs ... for autoconf

2001-04-23 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Gary" == Gary V Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Alexandre> That's why we should have this portability library coded in Alexandre> m4sh. Instead of repeatedly fixing the same problems over Alexandre> and over, we should have them coded right once, and then Alexandre> used all over. Th

Re: Technical Review

2001-04-23 Thread Akim Demaille
> On Friday 20 April 2001 7:12 pm, Akim Demaille wrote: > > > "Gary" == Gary V Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Gary> Salut Akim! > > > > Coucou ! > > Qu'est-ce que c'est? According to my dictionary ``peek-a-boo''. Very hard to describe :) It's kind of `salut', but in contexts

Re: Trace shows second argument to AC_SUBST

2001-04-23 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Akim Demaille writes: > > 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 > > Which is what is expected :) Maybe you meant --trace=AC_SUBST:'$1'. Silly me. I didn't know that AC_SUBST n

Re: Technical Review

2001-04-23 Thread Didier Verna
Akim Demaille wrote: > > On Friday 20 April 2001 7:12 pm, Akim Demaille wrote: > > > > "Gary" == Gary V Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > Gary> Salut Akim! > > > > > > Coucou ! > > > > Qu'est-ce que c'est? > > According to my dictionary ``peek-a-boo''. Very hard to describe

Re: macro doc inconsistencies

2001-04-23 Thread John W. Eaton
On 22-Apr-2001, Lars J. Aas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | I was thinking of using texinfo markup directly in the doc macro. HTML | and other formats should come from the texinfo output. I don't see this | part as an obstacle - the problem is more on the management-side - getting | the doc parts

Re: macro doc inconsistencies

2001-04-23 Thread Lars J. Aas
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 12:24:15PM -0500, John W. Eaton wrote: : You might take a look at what is currently used in the Octave sources : (current CVS and recent bleeding-edge (2.1.x) releases). The doc : strings for individual functions are written using Texinfo, and they : are included in the so

RE: macro doc inconsistencies

2001-04-23 Thread Bruce Korb
Me, too! Me, too! :-) AutoGen is now an official GNU tool & it includes an extractor not only useful for documentation, but just about everything else tied to entries in a source file. Since it antedates many of the other tools mentioned, it also uses slightly different syntax. But it is surp

Re: Possible patch for autoconf?

2001-04-23 Thread Daniel Carroll
On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 03:15:08AM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > 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

Re: security vs. configure

2001-04-23 Thread Michael Still
On 23 Apr 2001, Russ Allbery wrote: > Michael Still <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Autoconf could run gnupg / pgp (if present) after generating the > > configure script and produce a checksum on the script. If this was a > > default action, then it would increase the chance of developers havin

Re: security vs. configure

2001-04-23 Thread Michael Still
On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Tom Holroyd wrote: > On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Michael Still wrote: > > > Autoconf could run gnupg / pgp (if present) after generating the configure > > script and produce a checksum on the script. If this was a default action, > > then it would increase the chance of developers h

Re: security vs. configure

2001-04-23 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 10:14:16PM +1000, Michael Still wrote: > How many people use make dist though? My thinking was based on the fact > that the configure script is the bit that people seem to be concerned > about the most, because it is the first instance of some code being > blindly run. Jus

AC_PROG_CC now required?

2001-04-23 Thread Harlan Stenn
Latest CVS autoconf. I have several autoconf packages that do not do any compiling, so I don't bother to call AC_PROG_CC . However, the generated "configure" script seems to want to find the C preprocessor, and this fails with: harlan@puss> configure checking for a BSD compatible install... /

Re: Autoconf 2.49e

2001-04-23 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Apr 23, 2001, Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Alexandre> On Apr 20, 2001, Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> The code is absolutely frozen, this is our release candidate. We >>> still have much freedom on the

HPUX: running `ranlib --version' creates ./--version [Re: fileutils/autoconf: --version left behind

2001-04-23 Thread Jim Meyering
Hi Bob, Thanks for tracking down the cause. I'm forwarding your report to the autoconf mailing list. Jim Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... | > > | The version 4.0.45, I think from autoconf et al, leaves a "--version" | > > | file containing "!" in the source directory. Just FYI... | >