AC_CACHE

Hi, I'm updating a very old configure.in to a new configure.ac. I don't get what this does: # Check for the tigetstr/tigetnum functions. AC_MSG_CHECKING([for tigetstr/tigetstr]) AC_CACHE_VAL([gotch_cv_have_curses_tigetstr], [dnl AC_TRY_LINK([#

Re: ${prefix} expansion in configure.ac ?

Hi, On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 03:58:51PM +0200, Philippe Trottier wrote: > CPPFLAGS=-I${prefix}/include > LDFLAGS=-L${exec_prefix}/lib > > Is there better way to expand ${prefix} other than using sed ? yes, use the shell builtin `eval'. The following macro can serve as an example: http://www.gnu.

Re: ${prefix} expansion in configure.ac ?

Stepan Kasal wrote: Hi, On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 03:58:51PM +0200, Philippe Trottier wrote: CPPFLAGS=-I${prefix}/include LDFLAGS=-L${exec_prefix}/lib Is there better way to expand ${prefix} other than using sed ? here is something I have noticed, exec_prefix is set to NONE until the end of

Re: AC_CACHE

Russell Shaw wrote: Hi, I'm updating a very old configure.in to a new configure.ac. I don't get what this does: Don't worry, figured it out;) ___ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf

Re: multiline output variables.

Hi, again. This took a while because I was working on other things. I hope that this is the final patch for supporting multiline output variables. (Though I bet that I've made some dumb typo.) The attached patch is 'cvs diff'ed from anoncvs as of this afternoon. On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, Stepan Kas

RFC: Changing the default docdir

Hi, I think making the default "docdir" $(datadir)/doc/$(PACKAGE) is a bad idea. The primary reason is that clobbering can occur if the user installs multiple versions of the same package (which isn't unusal in cases where compatibility issues arise between versions). This problem was delt with

Re: multiline output variables.

On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 03:55:49PM -0500, Dan Manthey wrote: > I instead just ask `test ${#ac_delim} -gt 1000', which gives six > iterations with the current set up. ${#} isn't portable. I think this is: _len=`expr "${ac_delim}" : ".*"` -- albert chin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) __

Re: RFC: Changing the default docdir

Nicholas Wourms wrote: > I think making the default "docdir" $(datadir)/doc/$(PACKAGE) is > a bad idea. The primary reason is that clobbering can occur if > the user installs multiple versions of the same package (which > isn't unusal in cases where compatibility issues arise between > versions).

Re: empty config.h(.in)

Andreas Bauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([config.h]) > > On some machines it does create config.h(.in) as expected, i.e. with > all relevant definitions, on others the files are created but remain > rather empty! This suggests that Autoconf is not installed correctly on the

Re: multiline output variables.

Hi, > > I instead just ask `test ${#ac_delim} -gt 1000', which gives six > > iterations with the current set up. > > ${#} isn't portable. I think this is: > _len=`expr "${ac_delim}" : ".*"` but this is ugly. Something like: for f in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6; do test $f = 6 && AC_MSG_ERROR(...)