Re: AC_PROG_CC_C_O doesn't work with VC++

2005-07-04 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hi, On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 11:34:09AM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote: > > * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_PROG_CC_C_O): Use conf$$.o instead of ... > That looks good, except for one thing: the command OK, I'll fix the patch before committing it. > rm -f conf$$* > > might remove a bit too much. For e

Re: should a space really be a "special character" ?

2005-07-04 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 03:33:55PM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote: > > P.S. I've just noticed that autoconf/aclocal.m4 also holds > > AM_MISSING_HAS_RUN. Why? To avoid dependencies? > > Yes; someone who's installing Autoconf shouldn't need Automake, > to avoid the usual bootstrapping problems.

Re: AC_PROG_CC_C_O doesn't work with VC++

2005-07-04 Thread Harald Dunkel
Stepan Kasal wrote: > Hello, > > On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 10:14:28AM +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote: > >>How can I tell autoconf to not use -c and -o together, >>regardless what the test said? > > > Do I guess correctly that you in fact use AM_PROG_CC_C? AM_PROG_CC_C_O. Yup. > Then the following h

autom4te and m4

2005-07-04 Thread Patrick Welche
The attached patch is necessary as if you set the environment variable M4 to "m4 --nesting-limit=2048", the regexp won't match as there is a '=' rather than a ' ' after nesting-limit. BTW if even 2048 is too small what could be wrong with my configure script? (In fact this is apr, at the autoheade

Re: AC_PROG_CC_C_O doesn't work with VC++

2005-07-04 Thread Paul Eggert
Stepan Kasal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The main problem is in the trap defined in ./lib/autoconf/general.m4 > in _AC_INIT_PREPARE: > > rm -f -r conftest* confdefs* conf$[$]* $ac_clean_files How about if you simply remove conf[0-9]* instead? Those file names are all reserved by Autoconf

Re: autom4te and m4

2005-07-04 Thread Paul Eggert
Patrick Welche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The attached patch is necessary as if you set the environment variable M4 > to "m4 --nesting-limit=2048", the regexp won't match as there is a '=' > rather than a ' ' after nesting-limit. > > BTW if even 2048 is too small what could be wrong with my con