Re: conftest.cc disappearing in a misterious way

2005-07-07 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Roberto, * Roberto Bagnara wrote on Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 06:46:40PM CEST: > Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > >You said you searched for this already: are all systems this happens on > >on win32? Maybe some unrelated process keeps some file open or prevents > >writing to some file? (just another wild

Re: conftest.cc disappearing in a misterious way

2005-07-07 Thread Toby White
Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi Roberto, > > * Roberto Bagnara wrote on Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 06:46:40PM CEST: >> Ralf Wildenhues wrote: >> >You said you searched for this already: are all systems this happens on >> >on win32? Maybe some unrelated process keeps some file open or p

Re: conftest.cc disappearing in a misterious way

2005-07-07 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello Roberto, I looked at the lines in question: On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 06:44:14PM +0200, Roberto Bagnara wrote: > echo "$as_me:$LINENO: checking $ac_header usability" >&5 > echo $ECHO_N "checking $ac_header usability... $ECHO_C" >&6 > cat >conftest.$ac_ext <<_ACEOF > /* confdefs.h. */ > _ACEO

Re: conftest.cc disappearing in a misterious way

2005-07-07 Thread Toby White
Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * Toby White wrote on Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 12:03:33PM CEST: > >>Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>>I now did that, too. First thing: I find only one reference to >>> "conftest.cc: No such file" >>>and while there are numerous such with conftest.c, reasons

Re: conftest.cc disappearing in a misterious way

2005-07-07 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Toby White wrote on Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 12:03:33PM CEST: > Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > I now did that, too. First thing: I find only one reference to > > "conftest.cc: No such file" > > and while there are numerous such with conftest.c, reasons for failure > > are usua

Re: Configure help

2005-07-07 Thread Bob Rossi
> Something like a > --with-readline[=included] > might be useful, although I don't know of an established convention for > the optional `=included' part. > > > Also, AC_CHECK_LIB can not even look for libreadline.a until after the > > "make" is done. Is there a way to ./configure && make && mak

Re: Configure help

2005-07-07 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Bob, * Bob Rossi wrote on Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 04:34:25PM CEST: > > Something like a > > --with-readline[=included] > > might be useful, although I don't know of an established convention for > > the optional `=included' part. > > > > > Also, AC_CHECK_LIB can not even look for libreadline.a

Updating from vsn 2.57

2005-07-07 Thread Stroud Custer
I have version 2.57 of autoconf, which came with my SuSE distro. I have encountered some packages which require version 2.58 or above. When I try to run the current 2.59 build, I get a message that version 2.58 or above is required. Can I get either a binary distro of version 2.59 for SuSE, o

FYI: cygwin /bin/sh has changed

2005-07-07 Thread Eric Blake
Since autoconf appears to be the best collection of shell portability, you may be interested to know that as of July 7, 2005, cygwin's official /bin/sh is bash 3.x, rather than an old fork of the non-POSIX ash 0.2. Cygwin distributions still include /bin/ash, but I doubt many users will override th

readline5.0 on solaris 10

2005-07-07 Thread ray . mccaffity
configure: WARNING: sys/ptem.h: present but cannot be compiled configure: WARNING: sys/ptem.h: check for missing prerequisite headers? configure: WARNING: sys/ptem.h: proceeding with the preprocessor's result configure: WARNING: ## ## configure: WARNING: