Re: AS_EXECUTABLE_P again -- summary (was: bug in texi2dvi, and hack patch)

2005-01-24 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hi, On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 08:52:16PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > If there was a named pipe /tmp/foo with an executable bit set, the test > > could misclasify it as an executable file. ... > FWIW, I don't regard this as ``misclasification'', since the named > pipe does, indeed, have its execu

this AC_ARG_ENABLE stuff works, but I suspect I'm not doing this the best way...

2005-01-24 Thread Ed Hartnett
Howdy all! I'm working on netcdf, a popular freeware software library for climate scientists and meteorologists. I have an option in my configure.ac which allows the user to build an extra part of the package if they specify --enable-netcdf-4 during the configure step. If they do specify it, I ne

Re: this AC_ARG_ENABLE stuff works, but I suspect I'm not doing this the best way...

2005-01-24 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Ed Hartnett wrote on Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 05:26:40PM CET: > > Here's how I do it, but I'm sure there must be a better way. In I don't think it works.. > particular, how do I set the macro USE_NETCDF4 to 1, when > AC_ARG_ENABLE sets ac_cv_use_netcdf4 to either "yes" or "no." > > The way I do i

Re: this AC_ARG_ENABLE stuff works, but I suspect I'm not doing this the best way...

2005-01-24 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 09:26:40AM -0700, Ed Hartnett wrote: > AC_MSG_CHECKING([whether netCDF-4 is to be built]) ... > AC_MSG_RESULT($ac_cv_use_netcdf4) I wouldn't use this. You are not performing any time consuming check, with program compilation and such. > [ac_cv_use_netc

Re: cdparanoia & grip

2005-01-24 Thread Chris Albertson
There is a log file that records gcc's output. You will need to look at that to determine exactly what went wrong. My guess without looking at it is some needed library is not in the linker's search path Also you've posted the question to the autoconf. This is not an aaautoconf problem. Looks t

Re: cdparanoia & grip

2005-01-24 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, Chris Albertson wrote: Also you've posted the question to the autoconf. This is not an aaautoconf problem. Looks to me like autoconf.is working just fine Note that the user did (mostly) what he was asked to do, although the warning message said to post a bug report to [EMAIL

Re: multiline output variables.

2005-01-24 Thread Dan Manthey
Well, this took me longer to get to than I had hoped, but it came out pretty well: I've rewritten my solution from scratch in order to clean it up and document it. Find the diff from 2.59b attached. Some things are worth nothing: I've made a new macro that is just the max number of sed commands

howto identify os

2005-01-24 Thread Francesco Zappa Nardelli
Hello. I am a novice user of autoconf, and I am sorry if my question is really silly. I am looking for a way to tell configure that the makefile it eventually generates should include the file "linux.mak" if we are building the software on Linux, and "macosx.mak" if we are building on Darwin.

RE: howto identify os

2005-01-24 Thread Guus Leeuw jr.
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:autoconf- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Francesco Zappa Nardelli > Sent: lundi 24 janvier 2005 20:54 > > I am looking for a way to tell configure that the makefile it > eventually generates should include the file "linux.mak" if we