Standardized package file...

2004-09-03 Thread Rhone Leah
Dear Developers, Recently I have been spending alot of time looking around at different package management methods, and I have an idea about possible standardization. Im not shure if this is even possible with autoconf, however here goes. The initial configure script, if possible, could create

Re: using getconf in autoconf macro to find 64 bit compile options?

2004-09-03 Thread Bob Proulx
Jeff Sheinberg wrote: > Ed Hartnett writes: > > I wonder if there is any autoconf macro for running getconf to find > > the compile flags needed for 64-bit compilation on platforms that > > support it. For example, both the AIX and solaris platforms have > > special compile options to get 64 bi

Re: compiler dependencies type

2004-09-03 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* bertold wrote on Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 07:39:59PM CEST: > i have embedded compiler which found by configure like tru64 > dependencies type. I presume this depmod style then fails later on, right? Why and how? > after reading from configure , i can't find how/when to add my compiler > style. >

testsuite fails only when called via make check

2004-09-03 Thread Pacey, Mike
I'm currently trying to install autoconf-2.59 on my system (sparc-sun-solaris2.8) and I'm seeing something odd with the testsuite. When I run 'make check' from the top level install directory, I get numerous testsuite failures culminating in: Please send `testsuite.log' and all information you th

Howto AC_SUBST all environment variables

2004-09-03 Thread Thorsten Huhn
Hi, I wonder if it is possible to make all environment variables available for variable replacement without AC_SUBST(VAR) each of them. The next step would be to keep a configuration file containing Name/Value pairs and to read them to use AC_OUTPUT to replace all @name@ with the corresponding

Re: testsuite fails only when called via make check

2004-09-03 Thread Paul Eggert
"Pacey, Mike" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When I run 'make check' from the top level install directory, I get > numerous testsuite failures > > But when I cd into the tests directory and run ./testsuite, all tests > pass. Sounds like there's some sort of environment problem, e.g., you migh