Re: [Elrond] Bug#281364: autoconf: configure doesn't show version for --version

2006-04-12 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Paul Eggert wrote on Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 06:58:07PM CET: > Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > When the old style of AC_INIT is used (with a single argument > > that indicates a file to check for) recent Autoconf omits > > Autoconf version info from the generated configure's --version >

Re: [Vincent Lefevre] Bug#325866: autoconf: AC_COMPILE_IFELSE generates a test that doesn't work on IRIX64

2006-04-12 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Noah Misch wrote on Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 11:41:42PM CEST: > On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 08:17:51AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > > Would grepping "^ #error directive:" break anything elsewhere? > > That is probably safe, but it adds a fork to every AC_COMPILE_IFELSE. Cygwin > would suffer e

Re: Broken makefile given Autoconf version mismatch

2006-04-12 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, as Bruno said, ``GCS doesn't mandate that the build will break.'' I think we could be more careful and include some workarounds. Generally, there are two problem situations: Problem A: a script.sh.in starts with prefix = @prefix@ doc = @docdir@ this has to be fixed by adding `dataroot

Re: Broken makefile given Autoconf version mismatch

2006-04-12 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Stepan, Noah, Thanks to both of you for the analyses! * Stepan Kasal wrote on Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 02:17:53PM CEST: > > Problem A: > a script.sh.in starts with > > prefix = @prefix@ > doc = @docdir@ But maybe that would have to be prefix="@prefix@" doc="@docdir@" or similarly. This is

Re: Broken makefile given Autoconf version mismatch

2006-04-12 Thread Steven P. Ulrick
On Wed, 12 Apr 2006 14:17:53 +0200 Stepan Kasal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, >as Bruno said, ``GCS doesn't mandate that the build will break.'' > I think we could be more careful and include some workarounds. > > Generally, there are two problem situations: > > Problem A: > a script.s

Re: how to something from the configure script into one of the test programs?

2006-04-12 Thread Bob Proulx
Ed Hartnett wrote: > To accommodate this on machines with disk quotas, I want to allow the > user to specify to configure a directory in which large files can be > created during testing. You might look into just having the user set TMPDIR (or through your configure option) to the directory for h

Re: how to add a directory removal to clean target

2006-04-12 Thread tchize
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Well i was not sure where question had to go, given autoconf and automake are tightly linked Thanks a lot (a bit late cause i didn't see your reply :( ) Ralf Wildenhues a écrit : > Hi Tchize, > > * tchize wrote on Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 08:13:24PM CE

Re: Broken makefile given Autoconf version mismatch

2006-04-12 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Stepan Kasal wrote on Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 02:17:53PM CEST: > The proposal > >http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2005-03/msg00027.html > > goes in this direction, but needs more work, as Bruno said. > I might do that work when we come to an agreement what we want. I know you wo

Re: Broken makefile given Autoconf version mismatch

2006-04-12 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 08:45:04PM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > here's a patch that I think does more or less what Bruno's patch > intends to do, against current CVS. I worked on the same issue. We both use the same pattern `sed -n '/@datadir@/p;/@docdir@/p;/@infodir@/p...' ...

Re: Broken makefile given Autoconf version mismatch

2006-04-12 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello Steven, On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 08:11:41AM -0500, Steven P. Ulrick wrote: > I had that EXACT thing happen to me when I was running Fedora Core 3. thank you for witnessing this. It added up to convince me that Bruno's fix is really necessary. I was blind for a long time. (And thanks to Noa

Re: nested packages

2006-04-12 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 08:39:41AM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * Bob Rossi wrote on Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 03:42:51AM CEST: > > [...] I would like to avoid having to run ./configure > > twice for the installation of CGDB. do you know about AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS? With this macro, the outer co

Re: nested packages

2006-04-12 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Stepan, * Stepan Kasal wrote on Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 10:41:58PM CEST: > On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 08:39:41AM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > * Bob Rossi wrote on Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 03:42:51AM CEST: > > > [...] I would like to avoid having to run ./configure > > > twice for the installation of

Re: Broken makefile given Autoconf version mismatch

2006-04-12 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Stepan, * Stepan Kasal wrote on Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 09:47:36PM CEST: > On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 08:45:04PM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > here's a patch that I think does more or less what Bruno's patch > > intends to do, against current CVS. > > I worked on the same issue [..] and your pa

Re: Broken makefile given Autoconf version mismatch

2006-04-12 Thread Steven P. Ulrick
On Wed, 12 Apr 2006 22:32:08 +0200 Stepan Kasal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Steven, > > On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 08:11:41AM -0500, Steven P. Ulrick wrote: > > I had that EXACT thing happen to me when I was running Fedora Core > > 3. > > thank you for witnessing this. It added up to convin

Re: nested packages

2006-04-12 Thread Bob Rossi
On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 10:48:15PM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Hi Stepan, > > * Stepan Kasal wrote on Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 10:41:58PM CEST: > > On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 08:39:41AM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > > * Bob Rossi wrote on Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 03:42:51AM CEST: > > > > [...] I woul