Re: patch for autoconf manual

2002-03-14 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Martin Pool writes: > I am not sure what a good portable way to test for symlinks from the > shell would be. In libtool we've used if (test -h $file) >/dev/null 2>&1 || (test -L $file) >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then echo "$file is a symlink" fi (Actually, it's part of a larger scheme to replace 't

Re: Computed version number in configure.ac

2002-03-14 Thread Guillaume Chazarain
>> AC_INIT([gliv], [$(head -n 1 NEWS)]) >> >> autoconf complains the version arg is not a litteral. > >Try something like > >AC_INIT([gliv], [esyscmd([head -n 1 NEWS])]) Well, I couldn't make esyscmd([head -n 1 NEWS]) work in an AC_INIT arg.

Re: Autoconf 2.52g is released

2002-03-14 Thread Bob Proulx
> I hope you don't mind my using this text into the Autoconf doc? Not at all. Flattered, in fact. I might like to improve the prose so that it flows into the documentation better. Let me know if there is any way I can help. Bob > -- > > Thomas>

Re: Autoconf 2.52g is released

2002-03-14 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Bob" == Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I hope you don't mind my using this text into the Autoconf doc? Bob> Not at all. Flattered, in fact. I might like to improve the Bob> prose so that it flows into the documentation better. Let me Bob> know if there is any way I can help.

Re: patch for autoconf manual

2002-03-14 Thread Akim Demaille
Would you contribute the text itself? TIA!

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Re: Computed version number in configure.ac

2002-03-14 Thread Akim Demaille
| Hello, | In my configure.ac I get the version number from the NEWS file, this used | to work but does not anymore with autoconf-2.53. | | I used : | | AC_INIT([src/gliv.c]) | read version < $srcdir/NEWS | AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([gliv], [$version]) | | but now, with | | AC_INIT([gliv], [$(head -n

Re: Computed version number in configure.ac

2002-03-14 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Guillaume Chazarain writes: > Well, I couldn't make esyscmd([head -n 1 NEWS]) work in an AC_INIT arg. Works here. What's happening in your case? -- Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Computed version number in configure.ac

2002-03-14 Thread Guillaume Chazarain
>> Well, I couldn't make esyscmd([head -n 1 NEWS]) work in an AC_INIT arg. > > Works here. What's happening in your case? -- > If I were you, I would not try to do that, but that's only my opinion, > no flamewar needed. > > /tmp % cat configure.ac

Re: patch for autoconf manual

2002-03-14 Thread Martin Pool
On 14 Mar 2002, Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Would you contribute the text itself? TIA! OK, when I work out something that works on all our machines I'll send you a note. I can't promise it will work everywhere. -- Martin

Autom4te cache doesn't record m4_include information

2002-03-14 Thread Peter Eisentraut
I have a package that contains a configure.in and several config/*.m4. The aclocal.m4 has a bunch of m4_include statements that include the *.m4 files. Whenever I fiddle around in any of the *.m4 and rerun autoconf, nothing happens. That's because autoconf thinks it has the result "cached". Som

Re: Severe performance problem and proposed solution

2002-03-14 Thread Tom Tromey
> "Ralf" == Ralf Corsepius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ralf> In its final consequence it would mean either gcc's Ralf> configuration to be basically broken or autoconf not to be Ralf> applicable inside of gcc's source-tree, because autoconf Ralf> pre-requires a functional c-compiler. I haven