Re: release Autoconf?

2001-05-11 Thread Ralf Corsepius
"Lars J. Aas" wrote: > > On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 05:06:33PM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > : FWIW: I am also seeing random problems related to AC_PROG_CPP > : (AC_PROG_CPP picking up /lib/cpp if using a cross-compiler, > : sometimes I see AC_PROG_CPP being invoked twice). Unfortunately I am > >

Re: 2.49e problems with gcc

2001-05-11 Thread Akim Demaille
| In fact, this macro (also from gcc/aclocal.m4) seems to be the cause | of the recursion problem: | | dnl Locate a program and check that its version is acceptable. | dnl AC_PROG_CHECK_VER(var, name, version-switch, | dnl version-extract-regexp, version-glob) | AC_DEFUN(gcc_AC_

Re: 2.49e problems with gcc

2001-05-11 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Tim" == Tim Van Holder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Tim> Note that I think you shouldn't redirect the first run; this Tim> masks any useful error messages sourcing traces.sh might produce. Hm, maybe. OK with me.

Re: release Autoconf?

2001-05-11 Thread Akim Demaille
| AFAIS, one cause for this to happen at all, is presence of /lib/cpp | in this fragment from AC_PROG_CPP: | |# Double quotes because CPP needs to be expanded | for CPP in "$CC -E" "$CC -E -traditional-cpp" "/lib/cpp" | do | _AC_PROG_PREPROC_WORKS_IFELSE([break]) | done |

Re: 2.49e problems with gcc

2001-05-11 Thread Tim Van Holder
> | [changequote(<<,>>)dnl > | ac_prog_version=`<<$>>$1 $3 2>&1 | > |sed -n 's/^.*patsubst(<<$4>>,/,\/).*$/\1/p'` > | echo "configure:__oline__: version of $2 is $ac_prog_version" > >&AC_FD_CC > | case $ac_prog_version in > | '') gcc_cv_prog_$2_modern=no;; > |

Re: release Autoconf?

2001-05-11 Thread Ralf Corsepius
Akim Demaille wrote: > > | AFAIS, one cause for this to happen at all, is presence of /lib/cpp > | in this fragment from AC_PROG_CPP: > | > |# Double quotes because CPP needs to be expanded > | for CPP in "$CC -E" "$CC -E -traditional-cpp" "/lib/cpp" > | do > | _AC_PROG_PREPROC_

Re: release Autoconf?

2001-05-11 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Ralf" == Ralf Corsepius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ralf> Hmm, I think we might be talking past each other: Ralf> All I am trying to say is: This check checks for a tool which is Ralf> not applicable/illegal to use for cross compilation (/lib/cpp is Ralf> a native build-host tool). As a

AC_CANONICAL_HOST called behind my back?

2001-05-11 Thread Mo DeJong
I just tested out the most recent CVS verison of autoconf and it seems I have run into a small problem. The source code I am using is the CVS verison of Tcl/Tk 8.4 from: :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/tcl Module: tcl Password: anonymous When I run autoconf 2.13 in the tcl/win subdirectory,

Re: release Autoconf?

2001-05-11 Thread Mo DeJong
On 12 May 2001, Akim Demaille wrote: > > "Ralf" == Ralf Corsepius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Ralf> Hmm, I think we might be talking past each other: > > Ralf> All I am trying to say is: This check checks for a tool which is > Ralf> not applicable/illegal to use for cross compilation (/

Re: release Autoconf?

2001-05-11 Thread Ralf Corsepius
Akim Demaille wrote: > > > "Ralf" == Ralf Corsepius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Ralf> Hmm, I think we might be talking past each other: > > Ralf> All I am trying to say is: This check checks for a tool which is > Ralf> not applicable/illegal to use for cross compilation (/lib/cpp is > R

Re: release Autoconf?

2001-05-11 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On May 11, 2001, Ralf Corsepius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are you thinking about something in analogy to AC_CHECK_TOOL > ($target-cpp or similar?). At least the gnu toolchain does not have > such a beast, but it might be worth checking for in the cross > compilation case. > BTW: Why isn't 'cp

RE: release Autoconf?

2001-05-11 Thread Bernard Dautrevaux
> -Original Message- > From: Alexandre Oliva [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, May 12, 2001 5:38 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: Akim Demaille; Lars J. Aas; Steven G. Johnson; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: release Autoconf? > > > On May 11, 2001, Ralf Corsepius <[EMAIL PRO