Re: [RFC] Multi-processor friendly autoconf?

2002-09-29 Thread Bonzini
> How will you write config.status and config.log in a serial manner? Use a > bunch of little files and assemble them at the end? If the configure > script aborts with an error, where will the user find the diagnostic > information? Maybe with trap? Remember that there is still a configure she

Objections? Re: Checking for CXX libraries -- AC_CXX_CHECK_LIB ?

2002-09-29 Thread Allan Clark (reply to list only)
I'm looking here for objections from the AutoConf list. I could probably have a version tonight or tomorrow that ignores the copied LANG(C)->LANG(C+) stuff and looks something like this: AC_CXX_CHECK_LIB(library, function, params, [action-if-found], [action-if-not-found], [other-libraries]) .

Re: Objections? Re: Checking for CXX libraries -- AC_CXX_CHECK_LIB ?

2002-09-29 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 03:05:35PM -0400, Allan Clark (reply to list only) wrote: > I'm looking here for objections from the AutoConf list. > > > I could probably have a version tonight or tomorrow that ignores the > copied LANG(C)->LANG(C+) stuff and looks something like this: > > AC_CXX_CHECK

Re: Objections? Re: Checking for CXX libraries -- AC_CXX_CHECK_LIB ?

2002-09-29 Thread Sebastian Huber
Hello! On Sunday 29 September 2002 12:05, you wrote: > I'm looking here for objections from the AutoConf list. > > > I could probably have a version tonight or tomorrow that ignores the > copied LANG(C)->LANG(C+) stuff and looks something like this: > > AC_CXX_CHECK_LIB(library, function, params,

Re: defined(IRIX)

2002-09-29 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Thomas Dickey writes: > that's assuming the compiler is correct (which, in the case of gcc, has > not always been true). The compiler is correct by definition, because the compiler will compile my code and that's the scenario I'm interested in. If the compiler generates broken or random code yo

Re: MinGW GLib

2002-09-29 Thread Soren A
[I've tried to set the 'follow-up' field to only the Autoconf List since I think with this my reply to Tor, the specific relevence to the MinGW User's List will have been about used up; but Gmane / my newsreader wouldn't allow it. Sorry.] Tor Lillqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: MinGW GLib

2002-09-29 Thread Tom Tromey
> "Soren" == Soren A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Soren> IOW, the way Automake is designed is to make keeping a very Soren> complex package's dependencies tracked so that it can be Soren> smarter than the developer -- so that if the developer (package Soren> author / maintainer) forgets to upd

Build problems for m4 target with make distcheck

2002-09-29 Thread Stephen Torri
Automake-2.54 Automake-1.6.3 When I can configure and compile a project that I am working on the automake and autoconf files. When I run "make -j4" it works fine. But when I try to do "make distcheck" I get back: config.status: creating po/POTFILES config.status: creating po/Makefile config.stat