posh and Autoconf

I tried the Autoconf test suite with the posh (Policy-compliant Ordinary SHell, ) supplied with Debian: it failed the "AC_CONFIG_LINKS and identical files" test due to this bug: . I upgraded my posh to the latest versio

Re: Multiple --with-foo possible?

Hello! On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 02:23:22PM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > OK. There are a couple of issues you have to deal with then: Ralf, thanks for your help! > Second, you have to actually get at the switches that were used. I > think you can proceed similarly to the algorithm used by _AC

How to tell autoconf not to try and run programs

If the configure variable cross_compiling=yes, autoconf does not try to run compiler-generated programs, at least the one to see if the compiler works. Now I don't think I'm technically cross-compiling, but I would like a way to tell AC_PROG_CC to not try and run the generated executable. The probl

Re: Multiple --with-foo possible?

Hi Tho,as On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 12:50:13PM +0200, Thomas Schwinge wrote: > > AC_ARG_WITH([module], > dnl TODO. Want to use commas instead of exclamation marks, but aclocal > doesn't > dnl like that. TODO. Squared brackets are not being shown in help output. > AS_HELP_STRING([--wit

Re: How to tell autoconf not to try and run programs

Hello Christopher, * Christopher Hulbert wrote on Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 02:46:21PM CEST: > If the configure variable cross_compiling=yes, autoconf does not try > to run compiler-generated programs, at least the one to see if the > compiler works. Now I don't think I'm technically cross-compiling,

Re: Multiple --with-foo possible?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Ralf Wildenhues on 4/6/2008 7:39 AM: |> dnl like that. TODO. Squared brackets are not being shown in help output. |> AS_HELP_STRING([--with-module-ID=PATH!PRIORITY!SHARE[!COMMAND LINE]], |> [add a module])) U

Re: ``install -C'' / unnecessarily updating time stamps

Hello! It's been some time, but still... On Mon, Dec 25, 2006 at 09:23:15PM -0800, Paul Eggert wrote: > Benoit Sigoure <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2006-10/msg00070.html > > I installed the following to Automake install-sh to implement > "

Re: ``install -C'' / unnecessarily updating time stamps

Hi Thomas, * Thomas Schwinge wrote on Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 08:12:49PM CEST: > On Mon, Dec 25, 2006 at 09:23:15PM -0800, Paul Eggert wrote: > > > > I installed the following to Automake install-sh to implement > > "install-sh -C", which is the second part of that patch. > However now there is ano

Re: posh and Autoconf

Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I upgraded my posh to the latest version in Debian before the report, > from 0.5.4 to 0.6.4, to ensure the bug wasn't fixed already. To my > surprise, the newer posh now fails to run configure and config.status > scripts because it requires that 'trap

Re: posh and Autoconf

Hello Russ, * Russ Allbery wrote on Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 03:04:11AM CEST: > > I believe posh was explicitly written as a POSIX compliance test suite for > shell scripts, and hence doesn't implement any extensions other than those > so ubiquitous that they're de facto standards. There's discussio