Re: comma separated lists

2003-02-20 Thread Bruno Haible
Peter Eisentraut writes: > > 1) autoconf is not C. autoconf's input is processed through *m4*, and > > results in *sh* output. ... > > The fact is that the space-separated lists are not > "native" to the m4 language. But space-separated lists are "native" to the sh language. So they occur

unset'ing LANG causes AIX trouble for configure due to NLSPATH

2003-02-20 Thread Tom Epperly
This section of the automatically generated configure script # NLS nuisances. for as_var in LANG LANGUAGE LC_ALL LC_COLLATE LC_CTYPE LC_NUMERIC LC_MESSAGES LC_TIME do if (set +x; test -n "`(eval $as_var=C; export $as_var) 2>&1`"); then

Re: 1,000 year backward compatability of tools

2003-02-20 Thread Chris Albertson
I have a few "antique" computers. The first Compaq, A very early Sun SPARC 1. a Mac before they offered a hard drive and others Had a VAX too, but no place to store it and some guy offered me $1,500 for the tape drive... These machines are only worth keeping if you still have the old software t

Re: backward compatability of tools

2003-02-20 Thread Roger Leigh
Bruce Korb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Eric Siegerman wrote: > > > Hmmm, that brings up GCC. I know they have their own reasons for > > sticking with 2.13 (or had, last time I checked), but AC's > > dropping old-box support might be one more, given that GCC is > > seen as (among other things)

Automake 1.7.3 released

2003-02-20 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
We're pleased to announce the release of Automake 1.7.3 This is a bug fix release. The list of bug fixes is appended. You can find the new release here: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.7.3.tar.bz2 ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.7.3.tar.gz ftp://sources.redhat.com