Re: Question about autoconfig configure tests and interprocedural optimization

2007-09-29 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Cox, Robert on 9/28/2007 5:38 PM: > Hello list members, Hello, Robert, > existence of mkstemps() on our system looks like: > > // Lots of headers and includes > > char (*f) () = mktemps; Was this a typo for mkstemp? > > int > main

Re: dpkg hooks

2007-09-29 Thread William Pursell
Bob Proulx wrote: William Pursell wrote: I often find myself removing a package and then deleting all of my cache files, but I have a tendency to forget to delete the cache files until a configure invocation noticeably misbehaves. Autoconf cache files? As in the 'autom4te.cache' directories c

Re: dpkg hooks

2007-09-29 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to William Pursell on 9/29/2007 11:14 AM: > I'm talking about those files named $cache_file in > my $CONFIG_SITE. Since they hold lines of the form: > ac_cv_func_foo=${ac_cv_func_foo=yes} > the cache is invalid if I remove the package > cont

Re: Detecting Autoconf and Including Additional M4 Files

2007-09-29 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Christopher, * Christopher Key wrote on Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 02:56:45PM CEST: > Eric Blake wrote: > >According to Christopher Key on 9/24/2007 5:15 AM: > > > >>Hence, what I'd like to do is to be able to > >>detect whether autoconf has been used, and act appropriately > > > >Why not just a

Re: distributions build with autoconf are not re-locatable

2007-09-29 Thread C.J. Adams-Collier
Alrighty. I'll put something together. Thanks for the links. On 9/29/07, Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > According to C.J. Adams-Collier on 9/28/2007 7:02 PM: > > Hey all, > > > > Since we allow multiple absolute paths to be specified a

RE: Question about autoconfig configure tests and interprocedural optimization

2007-09-29 Thread Cox, Robert
Dear Eric, Thanks for the quick response! >> Was this a typo for mkstemp? It's actually a typo for mkstemps. I'm attaching full generated conftest (rconftest.c) > Which version of autoconf generated this? I'm not finding anything that > matches the pattern above in autoconf 2.61; could you pas

Re: Question about autoconfig configure tests and interprocedural optimization

2007-09-29 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Cox, Robert on 9/29/2007 2:12 PM: > It was derived from the aclocal.m4, which I have attached. Looks like > the function (is that what they are called in m4?) that is used to > generate this is called AC_LANG_FUNC_LINK_TRY. OK, this was i

RE: Question about autoconfig configure tests and interprocedural optimization

2007-09-29 Thread Cox, Robert
Thanks a lot, Eric, you made my week! -- Robert -Original Message- From: Eric Blake [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2007 2:03 PM To: Cox, Robert Cc: autoconf@gnu.org Subject: Re: Question about autoconfig configure tests and interp