On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 9:28 PM, Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Second, if you think you can write your own "config script" that will be
> portable to even a small fraction of the systems that an autoconfiscated
> package is, then by all means, have at it. Many people have made the
>
Hello Dirk,
On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 04:41:35PM -0500, Peter O'Gorman wrote:
> Dirk wrote:
> > # ./autogen.sh
> You failed to regenerate the generated files for this package because
> you do not have the correct tools installed [...]
>
> Why are you trying to generate these files? [...]
I gues
Hi,
On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 04:47:54PM -0400, epswint wrote:
> I've done plenty of programming, but no experience with compiling/building
> on Linux. I'd like to contribute to the LiquidPCB project
> (http://liquidpcb.org/Download/download.html) but I haven't gotten all the
> way through the a
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 3:08 PM, Stepan Kasal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Or, if you need to use a version checkout from a VCS (git,
> subversion, cvs, or whatever), you just install the right packages
> (by a tool provided by your GNU/Linux distribution, eg. yum on
> Fedora) and issue "./auto
I am continually astounded by self-righteousness in the tech world. There is so
much all of us either don't know (to say nothing of what we don't know that we
don't know) or have bunged up in our time, that we should be um
temperate in what we say. We all have plenty to learn and this
Hello,
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 05:53:48PM +0200, Bernd Jendrissek wrote:
> Ideally that would be just "autoreconf -i" in all autoconfiscated projects.
well, why "-i". Shouldn't it _ideally_ be just "autoreconf"?
> [...] extending autoreconf - perhaps by providing
> ${pkgdatadir}/autoreconf.d/
Stepan Kasal wrote:
Hi,
On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 04:47:54PM -0400, epswint wrote:
I've done plenty of programming, but no experience with compiling/building
on Linux. I'd like to contribute to the LiquidPCB project
(http://liquidpcb.org/Download/download.html) but I haven't gotten all the
On Sunday 16 March 2008 01:27, Tim Dennis wrote, quoting me:
> >> the macro call:
> >> AC_SEARCH_LIBS(h5open_f,[hdf5_fortran],[],[],[ -L$prefix/lib
> >> -I$prefix/lib])
> >
> > This doesn't look right; that final argument isn't for specifying
> > what LDFLAGS should be, it is to specify *other* lib
On Sunday 16 March 2008 19:28, Paul Smith wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-03-16 at 15:40 +0100, Dirk wrote:
> > My point is that autoconf is such a bloated, self-important,
> > wet-script-kiddie-dream that is DOESN'T make the build process
> > easier...
> >
> > It rather encourages people to write their own
Hi Keith,
> On Sunday 16 March 2008 01:27, Tim Dennis wrote, quoting me:
> By cheating, in this fashion, you are injecting the -L... flag into the
test command, *after* the name of the library you are checking for; this
comes too late for it to influence the search path which will be used to
fi
Stewart Dean wrote:
I am continually astounded by self-righteousness in the tech world.
There is so much all of us either don't know (to say nothing of what we
don't know that we don't know) or have bunged up in our time, that we
should be um temperate in what we say. We all have plen
On 17-Mar-2008, Keith Marshall wrote:
| I've recently ported Andries Brouwer's, (now Federico Lucifredi's),
| variant of John Eaton's man program, for use with MSYS, under
| MS-Windows. That package came with a hand crafted configure script,
| which "wasn't worth the effort of autoconfiscating
On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 15:37 +0100, Dirk wrote:
> I HAVE written something that works better than autoconf... in the
> real world... that requires only a installed C compiler... and is so
> easy it makes autoconf look like a project whose purpose is to harm
> open source development...
Hah! Good o
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