Re: Release Autoconf 2.50 on 19/20 May 2001?

2001-05-21 Thread Akim Demaille
If anyone present can show just and legal cause why it may not be shipped, let them speak now or forever hold their peace. Well, nobody seems to be against the release, so let's do it now.

Re: Release Autoconf 2.50 on 19/20 May 2001?

2001-05-21 Thread Pavel Roskin
Hi, Akim! On 21 May 2001, Akim Demaille wrote: > If anyone present can show just and legal cause why it may not > be shipped, let them speak now or forever hold their peace. > > Well, nobody seems to be against the release, so let's do it now. Let me be the first to congratulate

Re: Release Autoconf 2.50 on 19/20 May 2001?

2001-05-21 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Pavel" == Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Well, nobody seems to be against the release, so let's do it now. Pavel> Let me be the first to congratulate you and everybody on this Pavel> list! Let me be the first to welcome you :) Wazaaa!

RFC: Autoconf 2.50 is released

2001-05-21 Thread Akim Demaille
The Autoconf team is extremely proud (and quite relieved) to announce the release of Autoconf 2.50. As can be guessed from the NEWS excerpt below, profound changes have been made in order to provide a more coherent interface and more user-friendly macros. Autoconf can be downloaded from

Re: Release Autoconf 2.50 on 19/20 May 2001?

2001-05-21 Thread Lars J. Aas
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 02:41:21PM +0200, Akim Demaille wrote: : > "Pavel" == Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : >> Well, nobody seems to be against the release, so let's do it now. : : Pavel> Let me be the first to congratulate you and everybody on this : Pavel> list! : : Let me be

Re: Release Autoconf 2.50 on 19/20 May 2001?

2001-05-21 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Lars" == Lars J Aas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Lars> Is the 2.50 branch set up? There is a tag, autoconf-2_50.

Re: Release Autoconf 2.50 on 19/20 May 2001?

2001-05-21 Thread Lars J. Aas
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 03:41:44PM +0200, Akim Demaille wrote: : > "Lars" == Lars J Aas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : : Lars> Is the 2.50 branch set up? : : There is a tag, autoconf-2_50. I thought we should branch off for patchlevel/bugfix releases and keep head for continued development o

Re: Release Autoconf 2.50 on 19/20 May 2001?

2001-05-21 Thread Akim Demaille
Lars> Is the 2.50 branch set up? Akim> There is a tag, autoconf-2_50. For the time being, I'd appreciate that we keep on working on surface issues. I sure don't want to prohibit more ambitious changes, but there is still room for improvements on many issues. For instance, I'd like to start si

Re: Release Autoconf 2.50 on 19/20 May 2001?

2001-05-21 Thread Ralf Corsepius
Akim Demaille wrote: > > Lars> Is the 2.50 branch set up? > > Akim> There is a tag, autoconf-2_50. > Sorry, but IHMO, there should be a branch. > > Do you people think an FAQ should be in the documentation, or just > kept as a web page? > I do think we need one, ACK. > but should it be ship

Re: Release Autoconf 2.50 on 19/20 May 2001?

2001-05-21 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Ralf" == Ralf Corsepius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Akim> There is a tag, autoconf-2_50. Ralf> Sorry, but IHMO, there should be a branch. It was my understanding that a tag was enough to have a branch if we want one. Ralf> IMHO, having a plain text FAQ at the toplevel directory is a Ralf

Re: Release Autoconf 2.50 on 19/20 May 2001?

2001-05-21 Thread Russ Allbery
Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> "Ralf" == Ralf Corsepius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ralf> Sorry, but IHMO, there should be a branch. > It was my understanding that a tag was enough to have a branch if we > want one. That's correct; as long as you have a tag, you can always l

possibly undefined macro: dnl (Was: Autoconf 2.50 is released)

2001-05-21 Thread Akim Demaille
| + After cleaning up the autoupdate warnings, I got the following warning | from autoconf: | | configure.in:1: error: possibly undefined macro: dnl | | (But I didn't get that warning from dnl lines in my aclocal file!?) | | I switched to using # as my comment character and thing

Re: possibly undefined macro: dnl (Was: Autoconf 2.50 is released)

2001-05-21 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Akim" == Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Akim> It means that somewhere you were relying on the broken quotation Akim> of 2.13, or maybe that it is 2.50, trying to fix these issues, Akim> that broke your sources. It can very well be a real bug in 2.50, your feedback is essential.

how to use libraries in /usr/local

2001-05-21 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi, You remember the need for CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib while running configure? (We discussed this around 2001-03-15, subject "installation instructions on OpenBSD and FreeBSD".) It is not only a problem with *BSD. Also all of SunOS 4cc Solariscc A

Re: possibly undefined macro: dnl (Was: Autoconf 2.50 is released)

2001-05-21 Thread Keith Bostic
> Be aware that this message is definitely the sign that something is > going wrong. If I were you, I'd restore the dnl, and would look for > it in `configure' itself. It means that somewhere you were relying on > the broken quotation of 2.13, or maybe that it is 2.50, trying to fix > these issu

$lib-config (Re: how to use libraries in /usr/local)

2001-05-21 Thread Guido Draheim
Bruno Haible wrote: > [...] > Another totally different approach is to recommend that every > library libfoo comes with a script 'foo-config' in /usr/local/bin that > can spit out the required -I and -L options. Here as well, autoconf > support would be nice, so that the resulting -I/-L options w

Re: how to use libraries in /usr/local

2001-05-21 Thread Thomas E. Dickey
On Mon, 21 May 2001, Bruno Haible wrote: > So, in fact, it is a problem with *most* platforms, excluding GNU. > This is also what is written in the GNU standards: > > Most compilers other than GCC do not look for header files in > directory `/usr/local/include'. So installing the heade

I don't understand test caching

2001-05-21 Thread Warren Young
I'm an autoconf newbie. I have a few working autoconf macros that I tried to add caching support for, on the model of code from the Vaughan et al. autobook. Caching sort of works: I can see the proper value set in config.cache, and on the first clean run the appropriate #define gets set in confi

Re: how to use libraries in /usr/local

2001-05-21 Thread Russ Allbery
Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I would like to propose a "configure" option --use-local which, > depending on the language being used, does the following. For C and C++, > it appends " -I/usr/local/include" to CPPFLAGS and " -L/usr/local/lib" > to LDFLAGS. For Fortran, it should do si

Re: I don't understand test caching

2001-05-21 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
| Caching sort of works: I can see the proper value set in config.cache, | and on the first clean run the appropriate #define gets set in | config.h. On subsequent runs, the config.h value remains commented | out. Here's one of my macros, to check for SysV IPC headers: | | AC_DEFUN([ETR_SYSV_IP