mkinstalldirs

2002-01-19 Thread John Poltorak
I have been trying out autoconf v.2.52f on OS/2 and it is looking promising, although I have found one problem related to mkinstalldirs... As it is it won't cope with drive letters. If the intention is to make autoconf truly cross-platform then this needs to be addressed. I'm attaching a versi

nit about ./config.status

2002-01-19 Thread Simon Josefsson
In older autoconf versions, I often used 'less config.status' and cut'n'pasted the cmdline to ./configure to reconfigure a package. With autoconf 2.5 the cmdline used is available with ./config.status --version, but not in a cut'n'paste friendly format. Any chance of including the ./configure

Re: mkinstalldirs

2002-01-19 Thread Akim Demaille
> "John" == John Poltorak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: John> I have been trying out autoconf v.2.52f on OS/2 and it is John> looking promising, although I have found one problem related to John> mkinstalldirs... The master copy is in Automake, please fetch the CVS version there, and send upda

Re: nit about ./config.status

2002-01-19 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Simon" == Simon Josefsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Simon> In older autoconf versions, I often used 'less config.status' Simon> and cut'n'pasted the cmdline to ./configure to reconfigure a Simon> package. With autoconf 2.5 the cmdline used is available with Simon> ./config.status --versi

Re: Auto update of config.[guess|sub]

2002-01-19 Thread Akim Demaille
> "John" == John Poltorak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: John> If it is specified and it contains config.sub, would that John> version be used in preference to the one in the current John> directory (ie part of the original archive) ? unfortunately no. But I have added --timstamp in config.sub

Re: AC_LANG and _AC_LANG_ABBREV (fwd)

2002-01-19 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Travis" == Travis Shirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Travis> Hello, I've run into a problem while porting my autoconf Travis> scripts from 2.13 to 2.52. I used the following m4 code in Travis> one of my scripts: Travis> ifelse(AC_LANG,C,AC_REQUIRE([AC_PROG_CC])) This is doomed to failure

Re: nit about ./config.status

2002-01-19 Thread Simon Josefsson
Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> "Simon" == Simon Josefsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Simon> In older autoconf versions, I often used 'less > config.status' Simon> and cut'n'pasted the cmdline to > ./configure to reconfigure a Simon> package. With autoconf 2.5 > the cmdli

Re: nit about ./config.status

2002-01-19 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Simon" == Simon Josefsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Simon> Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Me> Am I missing something, you just want to run ./config.status Me> --recheck? Simon> If I'm on the same machine and if the package had proper make Simon> rules to regenerate Makefile

Re: nit about ./config.status

2002-01-19 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 05:00:53PM +0100, Simon Josefsson wrote: > Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >>"Simon" == Simon Josefsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >Simon> In older autoconf versions, I often used 'less > >config.status' Simon> and cut'n'pasted the cmdline to > >

Re: mkinstalldirs

2002-01-19 Thread John Poltorak
On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 03:41:53PM +0100, Akim Demaille wrote: > > "John" == John Poltorak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > John> I have been trying out autoconf v.2.52f on OS/2 and it is > John> looking promising, although I have found one problem related to > John> mkinstalldirs... > > The

make check error in autoconf v2.52f

2002-01-19 Thread John Poltorak
This is the single error I get when building and installing autoconf v2.52f on OS/2:- Making check in tests make[1]: Entering directory `/workdir/autoconf-2.52f/tests' make check-local make[2]: Entering directory `/workdir/autoconf-2.52f/tests' ./autom4te --language=autotest -I . suite.at -o t

Re: nit about ./config.status

2002-01-19 Thread Raja R Harinath
Hi, Simon Josefsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>> "Simon" == Simon Josefsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> Simon> In older autoconf versions, I often used 'less config.status' >> Simon> and cut'n'pasted the cmdline to ./configure to reconfi

Re: AC_LANG and _AC_LANG_ABBREV

2002-01-19 Thread Travis Shirk
On 19 Jan 2002, Akim Demaille wrote: > > "Travis" == Travis Shirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Travis> Hello, I've run into a problem while porting my autoconf > Travis> scripts from 2.13 to 2.52. I used the following m4 code in > Travis> one of my scripts: > > Travis> ifelse(AC_LANG,C,

Re: nit about ./config.status

2002-01-19 Thread Tom Tromey
> "Simon" == Simon Josefsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Simon> In older autoconf versions, I often used 'less config.status' Simon> and cut'n'pasted the cmdline to ./configure to reconfigure a Simon> package. FWIW, I've occasionally found this useful too. Sometimes I cut-and-paste like this