Advise Please

Hi I would appreciate if you guide me to the right person. There are some changes need to be applied to fix some problem in regard to HPUX IA64 systems. Thanks for any help. __Mehdi 1- checking how to recognise dependant libraries: Currently is : hpux10.20*|h

trouble with a check for funktion in library ...

Hi, The following is part of a configure.in file I'm trying to write, however the AC_CHECK_LIB always fails, what are the requirements for it to run ? I've been at this for a week or two now, and I just don't get it, even if I have been rtfm'ing .. Thanks, Lars Segerlund. # Checks for

Re: AC_CHECK_FUNCS difference between 2.54 and 2.56

On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 05:01:20PM +, Lars Hecking wrote: > Albert Chin writes: > > There seem to be problems with AC_CHECK_FUNCS on AIX with the IBM C > > compiler (5.0.2.6). With autoconf 2.54, AC_CHECK_FUNCS(chflags) > > outputs (b.c): > [...] > > The problem is that chflags doesn't exist on

Re: trouble with a check for funktion in library ...

Lars Segerlund writes: > > Hi, > > The following is part of a configure.in file I'm trying to write, > however the AC_CHECK_LIB always fails, what are the requirements for it > to run ? > > I've been at this for a week or two now, and I just don't get it, even > if I have been rtfm'ing ..

Re: (toplevel) introduce host subdir configuration in Makefile

On Dec 2, 2002, Daniel Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You may already know this, but just to be careful I'll mention it > anyway... it is not necessarily safe to configure more than one > subdirectory at a time. One possibly gotcha is the updating of > $cache_file. It isn't done atomic

Re: (toplevel) introduce host subdir configuration in Makefile

On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 02:39:49PM -0200, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > On Dec 2, 2002, Daniel Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > You may already know this, but just to be careful I'll mention it > > anyway... it is not necessarily safe to configure more than one > > subdirectory at a time.

Re: (toplevel) introduce host subdir configuration in Makefile

On Dec 2, 2002, Daniel Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> This was a bug in autoconf 2.13, that's fixed in autoconf 2.5x. > What was? The way files are generated from config.status? Yup. Each run of config.status uses a different temporary file name. > Without atomic updates you will d

Re: (toplevel) introduce host subdir configuration in Makefile

On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 03:44:21PM -0200, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > One way to try to overcome this limitation in autoconf that has just > occurred to me is to offload the updating of a shared config.cache to > the top-level Makefile. E.g., the Makefile safely copies the > top-level config.cache to

Re: (toplevel) introduce host subdir configuration in Makefile

On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 02:39:49PM -0200, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > On Dec 2, 2002, Daniel Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > You may already know this, but just to be careful I'll mention it > > anyway... it is not necessarily safe to configure more than one > > subdirectory at a time.

(no) over-writing generated files

AC_CONFIG_HEADER() is neat - it checks for changes in config.h before over-writing with the new version. This avoids unnecessary re-compiles after a ./configure Alas, AC_OUTPUT() is not so smart: the file is always over-written. With our "version.h" header, it always gets over-written, causing sp

Re: Patch: Too many files in AC_OUTPUT cause M4 error

> From: Martin Frydl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 19:03:52 +0100 > I've created a patch which is aware of M4 problem and separates the > task into two expressions - first removes the terminating space, > then strips the leading one and puts brackets around. Thanks for the detailed

Re: AC_CHECK_FUNCS always succeeds on AIX with Autoconf 2.56

Quoted from : > From: Martin Frydl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 13:36:20 +0100 > >I've looked into this problem and created patch. In fact I've only > put back the original code while maintaining the current on