how to set a default program-prefix whithin configure.ac

2005-02-17 Thread JRBCAST
Hi all, First of all, sorry if you have received this mail two times. My question is: How can I set a default progra-prefix without the need to explicitely pass it whith: ./configure --program-prefix ... Another question is: Once the user sets it using ./configure --program- prefix, which vari

Re: optional features and AC_ARG_WITH

2005-02-17 Thread Gregorio Guidi
On Wednesday 16 February 2005 16:31, you wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 06:05:12PM +0100, Gregorio Guidi wrote: > > Note: as you can see, the patch assumes there will be a solution for the > > "AC_REQUIRE in shell conditional" issue. > > actually, I believe that both my proposals will get

Re: how to set a default program-prefix whithin configure.ac

2005-02-17 Thread Harald Dunkel
JRBCAST wrote: Hi all, First of all, sorry if you have received this mail two times. My question is: How can I set a default progra-prefix without the need to explicitely pass it whith: ./configure --program-prefix ... Look for AC_PREFIX_PROGRAM in the autoconf manual (4.12). Another question i

Re: how to set a default program-prefix whithin configure.ac

2005-02-17 Thread JRBCAST
Thanks for your response, but it is not the kind of prefix I am looking for. I am looking for the prefix prepended to the program name when doing: make install For example, if my library has two programs, foo1 and foo2, and I do: ./configure --program-prefix=foopref_ when I do make install, i

Re: dispatching

2005-02-17 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, > > Somewhere early during ./configure, the host type is checked. If it is > > GNU (Hurd), an ordinary build is prepared. (Checking libs, using > > automake-generated makefile etc.) However, if it's Linux, the behaviour > > changes completely: All the ordinary checks are skipped; instead of an

Re: dispatching

2005-02-17 Thread Noah Misch
On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 07:53:36PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > > > Somewhere early during ./configure, the host type is checked. If it is > > > GNU (Hurd), an ordinary build is prepared. (Checking libs, using > > > automake-generated makefile etc.) However, if it's Linux, the behavio

dispatching

2005-02-17 Thread John W. Eaton
On 14-Feb-2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | I'd like to know whether the following scenario is possible with | Autoconf: | | Somewhere early during ./configure, the host type is checked. If it is | GNU (Hurd), an ordinary build is prepared. (Checking libs, using | automake-gene

Re: AC_REQUIRE problems

2005-02-17 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hi, On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 12:57:20PM -0500, Dan Manthey wrote: > Well, trivially, it's possible to run an arbitrary number of tests > together and see if _none_ of them fail: `cc foo.c bar.c' and then only > run them separately if there is a failure. it might also be possible with > some