Re: how to support compilers that cannot create executables?

2009-09-21 Thread Steffen Dettmer
Hi, thanks for you quick replies. On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 7:07 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * Steffen Dettmer wrote on Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 12:19:19PM CEST: > > But because of the tests it would not make much sense to do so, right? > > So it is better to have dummy entry code I think. > > Sorry

Re: support for non-standard C compilers (without fopen, FILE*, ...)

2009-09-21 Thread Steffen Dettmer
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 7:11 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * Steffen Dettmer wrote on Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 11:49:20AM CEST: >> >> Do I understand correctly that this was a temporary change that >> had been undone? > > Well yes, a regression is a bug in a newer version > When --build is omitted

Re: Finding "config.h" in VPATH builds

2009-09-21 Thread John Calcote
Hi David, On 9/19/2009 4:43 PM, David Bruce wrote: I have a project with all the source files in a src directory just below trunk, which is where the top level configure.ac and Makefile.am live. When I run configure, config.h is created at build/config.h. If I run configure from within trunk, m

Config and deploy Config files

2009-09-21 Thread Philip Herron
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hey guys I found a nice solution for this yet, but i have a project and trying to find the nicest way to build and deploy with a config file, and define the path to the file so as it isn't hard-coded. I know i could just deploy a file with a bash redi

Re: Config and deploy Config files

2009-09-21 Thread Peter Johansson
Philip Herron wrote: I found a nice solution for this yet, but i have a project and trying to find the nicest way to build and deploy with a config file, and define the path to the file so as it isn't hard-coded. I know i could just deploy a file with a bash redirect, and then AC_DEFINE the path,

Re: Finding "config.h" in VPATH builds

2009-09-21 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* David Bruce wrote on Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 12:43:54AM CEST: > I have a project with all the source files in a src directory just > below trunk, which is where the top level configure.ac and Makefile.am > live. When I run configure, config.h is created at build/config.h. > If I run configure from

Re: how to support compilers that cannot create executables?

2009-09-21 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Steffen Dettmer wrote on Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 10:24:26AM CEST: > On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 7:07 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > * Steffen Dettmer wrote on Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 12:19:19PM CEST: > > > But because of the tests it would not make much sense to do so, right? > > > So it is better to have

Re: Finding "config.h" in VPATH builds

2009-09-21 Thread David Bruce
Hi Steffen, > > Could it be that you have multiple config.h files and the wrong is used? > That was it - basically, some of the project members like to build with CMake instead of autotools, and a stray "config.h" got created and saved in a location that mislead the compiler. Thanks for the hel