Re: m4 quoting change? (2.52->2.53)

2002-04-09 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Roger" == Roger Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Roger> OK. Are autom4te and m4sugar to abstract autoconf away from Roger> m4, No, to improve M4's interface, and to implement caching. Roger> to allow replacement with e.g. autogen, so you can implement m4 Roger> with autogen? No, we s

Hiding autom4te.cache

2002-04-09 Thread Andreas Schwab
Would it make sense to rename autom4te.cache to something beginning with a dot, so that it is normally not visible when listing the directory? Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE GmbH, Deutschherrnstr. 15-19, D-90429 Nürnberg Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756

Re: Hiding autom4te.cache

2002-04-09 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Andreas" == Andreas Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Andreas> Would it make sense to rename autom4te.cache to something Andreas> beginning with a dot, so that it is normally not visible when Andreas> listing the directory? I didn't mean to because it's a maintainer tool, and as such I t

Re: portable tests for symlinks (was patch for autoconf manual)

2002-04-09 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 12:45:52PM +1000, Martin Pool wrote: > for cmd in test /bin/test /usr/bin/test /usr/ucb/bin/test /usr/ucb/test Minor quibble: This should probably try the built-in "test" last; an external binary is preferable (though slower), since it will work the same regardless of

Re: m4 quoting change? (2.52->2.53)

2002-04-09 Thread Roger Leigh
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 09:21:52PM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote: > > From: Roger Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 21:30:57 +0100 > > > > If I write a macro that I want to work with several autoconf versions, > > is there any way I can special-case what to do when run with a specifi

configure problem - ./configure succeeds locally but not remotely

2002-04-09 Thread Skip Montanaro
(please cc me on any replies, thx...) I'm a novice user of the autoconf/libtool/automake trio and am having trouble figuring out why my configure script works on my home machine but not elsewhere. I recently began hosting a small project on SF and decided to use the GNU tools to manage the confi