Re: optional features and AC_ARG_WITH

2005-02-04 Thread Gregorio Guidi
On Friday 04 February 2005 08:43, Paul Eggert wrote: > Dan Manthey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, Braden McDaniel wrote: > >> Paul Eggert wrote: > >> > When you say "features", do you mean "user-visible features"? That is > >> > the subject tof AC_ARG_ENABLE, and you can contr

Re: optional features and AC_ARG_WITH

2005-02-04 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hi, I'd also like to se a clear resolution about Georgio's question. I think I understand what he is asking for, thus I hope I won't do any harm if I rephrase the question. On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 11:43:54PM -0800, Paul Eggert wrote: > Dan Manthey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Thu, 3 Feb 20

Avoid redirecting to /dev/null

2005-02-04 Thread Annamalai Gurusami
Hi. We are using autoconf tools for our project. After doing ./configure when I issue the make command, the compiler output is being redirected to /dev/null. How to avoid this redirection? Here is a sample of the output (begin-quote) if /bin/sh ../../libtool --mode=compile g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H

Re: Avoid redirecting to /dev/null

2005-02-04 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hi, On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 04:40:23PM +0530, Annamalai Gurusami wrote: > when I issue the make command, the compiler output is being redirected > to /dev/null. How to avoid this redirection? when you look more closely to the output, you see it has the following structure: > libtool --mode=comp

Re: Avoid redirecting to /dev/null

2005-02-04 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Annamalai Gurusami wrote on Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 12:10:23PM CET: > > We are using autoconf tools for our project. After doing ./configure > when I issue the make command, the compiler output is being redirected > to /dev/null. How to avoid this redirection? > *snip* > > if /bin/sh ../../libt

Re: Avoid redirecting to /dev/null

2005-02-04 Thread Noah Misch
On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 04:40:23PM +0530, Annamalai Gurusami wrote: > Hi. > > We are using autoconf tools for our project. After doing ./configure > when I issue the make command, the compiler output is being redirected > to /dev/null. How to avoid this redirection? Libtool creates this behavio

Pending Patches

2005-02-04 Thread Noah Misch
Would someone review these? I would appreciate it. % creating temporary files in a secure way http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2005-01/msg00042.html - Doc-only fix. % Check only /usr/bin/hostinfo, not any `hostinfo' http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2005-01/msg00050.ht

Re: Avoid redirecting to /dev/null

2005-02-04 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
Annamalai Gurusami wrote: > We are using autoconf tools for our project. After doing ./configure > when I issue the make command, the compiler output is being redirected > to /dev/null. How to avoid this redirection? You need to arrange for libtool to receive -no-suppress in compile mode, adding

${prefix} expansion in configure.ac ?

2005-02-04 Thread Philippe Trottier
I have a little trouble here, I am trying to add the destination directory "--prefix" to the library and header directorys to look in... but since I am using ${libdir} and ${includedir} I get this CPPFLAGS=-I${prefix}/include LDFLAGS=-L${exec_prefix}/lib and not /home/user/include and /home/user

Re: optional features and AC_ARG_WITH

2005-02-04 Thread Paul Eggert
Stepan Kasal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The samba developers interpreted --with-acl-support as a firm decision, > so the configure script aborts if the acl prerequisities are not available. > > But the intention of the distribution builders was rather like ``I'd like > to have acl support, if p

Re: creating temporary files in a secure way

2005-02-04 Thread Paul Eggert
Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think it's worth describing how to portably create a temporary > file. Thanks for this suggestion. I altered the change a bit and installed this: 2005-02-04 Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * doc

Re: optional features and AC_ARG_WITH

2005-02-04 Thread Gregorio Guidi
On Friday 04 February 2005 21:17, Paul Eggert wrote: > Stepan Kasal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The samba developers interpreted --with-acl-support as a firm decision, > > so the configure script aborts if the acl prerequisities are not > > available. > > > > But the intention of the distributi

Re: optional features and AC_ARG_WITH

2005-02-04 Thread Paul Eggert
Gregorio Guidi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > To avoid this, it should be possible to build software x in a way that does > not depend on the building host, and this is only possible if x supports > AC_ARG_WITH() or AC_ARG_ENABLE() for every optional feature it has > (so that I can add --without-