Re: Diffing the results of conifgure

2010-07-27 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Philip, Stefano, * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 10:53:15PM CEST: > At Sunday 25 July 2010, Philip Prindeville wrote: > > confdefs.h is one idea, but I'm not sure it captures *all* of the > > state. Does it? No, it only captures the AC_DEFINE part, not the AC_SUBST part.

Re: Autotools book published

2010-07-27 Thread Matěj Týč
On Tue, 2010-07-27 at 11:55 +1000, Russell Shaw wrote: > John Calcote wrote: > > I apologize in advance for the apparent self-promoting tone of this > > message but I know there are folks out there interested in hearing about > > it. [Note also that I've only sent this note to the autoconf list in

Re: Autotools book published

2010-07-27 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
Is this book published under a free documentation license? ___ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf

Re: Autotools book published

2010-07-27 Thread John Calcote
On 7/27/2010 9:44 AM, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: > Is this book published under a free documentation license? > Hi Alfred, To be totally honest, I'm not really sure. That may sound funny, but I've been afraid to push this issue with No Starch Press because I had to search long and hard for a publis

Re: [PATCHES] Bootstrap: Allow user overriding of $AUTOCONF and $PERL.

2010-07-27 Thread Eric Blake
On 07/27/2010 03:08 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > On 07/27/2010 02:58 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: >> +# Let user choose which version of autoconf to use. >> +AUTOCONF=${AUTOCONF-autoconf} >> + > > I'm used to this variant, with less typing: > > : ${AUTOCONF=autoconf} > > But your way works, too. Huh

Re: [PATCHES] Bootstrap: Allow user overriding of $AUTOCONF and $PERL.

2010-07-27 Thread Stefano Lattarini
Hi Eric. At Tuesday 27 July 2010, Eric Blake wrote: > On 07/27/2010 03:08 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > > On 07/27/2010 02:58 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > >> +# Let user choose which version of autoconf to use. > >> +AUTOCONF=${AUTOCONF-autoconf} > >> + > > > > I'm used to this variant, with less typ

Re: [PATCHES] Bootstrap: Allow user overriding of $AUTOCONF and $PERL.

2010-07-27 Thread Eric Blake
On 07/27/2010 03:37 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: >>> I'm used to this variant, with less typing: >>> : ${AUTOCONF=autoconf} >>> >>> But your way works, too. > Can you confirm it's as portable as the ways suggested in the autoconf > manual? If yes, do you think it could be an useful addition to th

${var-$default} vs. ${var=$default} (was: Re: [PATCHES] Bootstrap: Allow user overriding of $AUTOCONF and $PERL.)

2010-07-27 Thread Stefano Lattarini
[Removing automake-patches from CC] At Tuesday 27 July 2010, Eric Blake wrote: > On 07/27/2010 03:37 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > >>> I'm used to this variant, with less typing: > >>> : ${AUTOCONF=autoconf} > >>> > >>> But your way works, too. > > > > Can you confirm it's as portable as the wa