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What's the deal with autom4te.cache?

2002-02-13 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Whenever CVS autoconf is run, it leaves a directory autom4te.cache/ in the current directory. What does this save? Can it be removed sometime? Should this be documented? -- Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why was handling of program_prefix changed?

2002-02-13 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
Hello Akin, autoconf developers, On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, Akim Demaille wrote: > Ian> Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> But wrt prefix_program, if *you*, Ian, tell me this change is wrong > >> (as opposed to good but implies more work elsewhere), then I'm > >> revert that bit. > Ian> I w

DOS path

2002-02-13 Thread John Poltorak
What is the recommended way of treating a DOS path such as? :- c:\def\ghij;k:\lm; Should some attempt be made to convert '\' to '/' before running autoconf or configure, or should it just be left in its native format and left for autoconf to treat it correctly? -- John

Re: What's the deal with autom4te.cache?

2002-02-13 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Peter" == Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Peter> Whenever CVS autoconf is run, it leaves a directory Peter> autom4te.cache/ in the current directory. What does this save? Traces and output. Peter> Can it be removed sometime? Anytime. Peter> Should this be documented? D

config.status links cp fallback

2002-02-13 Thread Kevin Ryde
A GMP user pointed out that the setups of as_ln_s include a fallback to "cp" if "ln" fails, but that the same isn't true of config.status when it sets up the AC_CONFIG_LINKS. I don't have a set of actual circumstances where there's a problem, though it would seem that if it's necessary to fall ba

On Cartesian Products and Simplicity

2002-02-13 Thread Bruce Korb
Akim wrote: > I mean > {preprocess, compile, link, run} > x {function call, whole program, whole source} x {variations required for each supported language} I think it's time to burn my few free moments on advocating AutoGen again. :-) Simplicity of use is more than brevity of expres

Re: DOS path

2002-02-13 Thread Paul Eggert
> From: John Poltorak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 20:21:20 + > > What is the recommended way of treating a DOS path such as? :- > > c:\def\ghij;k:\lm; > > > Should some attempt be made to convert '\' to '/' before running autoconf > or configure, That's what I'd do, yes.

Re: What's the deal with autom4te.cache?

2002-02-13 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Akim Demaille writes: > > "Peter" == Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Peter> Whenever CVS autoconf is run, it leaves a directory > Peter> autom4te.cache/ in the current directory. What does this save? > > Traces and output. Would it make sense to store this in some centraliz

Re: What's the deal with autom4te.cache?

2002-02-13 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 01:08:46PM -0500, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Whenever CVS autoconf is run, it leaves a directory autom4te.cache/ in the > current directory. What does this save? Can it be removed sometime? > Should this be documented? if it's documented, one could claim it's not a bug, r

cvs diff software/autoconf/autoconf.html

2002-02-13 Thread Bruce Korb
Akim, Shall I commit this? :-) -- Bruce $ cvs diff autoconf/autoconf.html Index: autoconf/autoconf.html === RCS file: /webcvs/software/autoconf/autoconf.html,v retrieving revision 1.7 diff -u -r1.7 autoconf.html --- autoconf/auto

Re: DOS path

2002-02-13 Thread Tim Van Holder
On Thu, 2002-02-14 at 00:46, Paul Eggert wrote: > > From: John Poltorak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 20:21:20 + > > > > What is the recommended way of treating a DOS path such as? :- > > > > c:\def\ghij;k:\lm; > > > > > > Should some attempt be made to convert '\' to '/'