Re: number of processors

2002-09-03 Thread Philipp Gortan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Philip Willoughby wrote: | Please could you all try this code on your platforms | and see what happens, and in the event of it failing to work get back to me | with a fix for your platform: Hi Philip + all, your software runs nicely on my linux x86 (

Autoconf 2.53c

2002-09-03 Thread Akim Demaille
Autoconf 2.54 is about to be released. This version includes many bugs fixes, and several new features, listed below. Special attention was paid to Automake 1.7-Autoconf 2.54 interaction. Akim, Alexandres, Jim, Paul, and Tom You may download Autoconf 2.53c immediately from: ftp://

Re: number of processors

2002-09-03 Thread Ralf Corsepius
Am Die, 2002-09-03 um 09.33 schrieb Philipp Gortan: > > # here comes your program... > # after successful checking for proc' count, save nrprocs to file: > > FILE * fd; > fd = fopen("./conftest.nrproc", "w"); > if(!fd) { > exit(EXIT_FAILURE); > } > fp

Re: number of processors

2002-09-03 Thread Philip Willoughby
Today, Ralf Corsepius wrote: >I.e. instead of trying to detect the number of processes, I'd recommend >to tell users to run >make -j I agree, in general, but it might be nice to add the support as an option (see attached). Note that the attached macro doesn't enable parallel building as yet --

Re: converting netkit to autoconf?

2002-09-03 Thread Bruce Korb
Akim Demaille wrote: > >> M4's rules are sometimes painful, but the shell's are often worse. > > Bruce> No way. What is crucial in quoting rules is that they be > Bruce> consistent. M4's are not. Second in importance is that they > Bruce> be few in number. M4, si, shell, no! > > Your senten

Re: converting netkit to autoconf?

2002-09-03 Thread Paul Eggert
> Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2002 07:06:09 -0700 > From: Bruce Korb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Akim Demaille wrote: > > M4 quotes are the most consistent one can design. > > The rules are consistent. The quoting is not. > The author of a macro must know what the current quoting sequence > is and the invoke

Re: converting netkit to autoconf?

2002-09-03 Thread Earnie Boyd
Paul Eggert wrote: > > Since you're repeating the question, I can't resist repeating my answer: > > "Quoting is _always_ hard. In every language that has arbitrary > strings. One cannot escape it." You should clean that up a little: ["Quoting is _always_ [Hh][Aa][Rr][Dd]. In every languag