Re: Autoconf does not like "-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -O2"

2013-05-09 Thread Zack Weinberg
On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 11:19 PM, Allan McRae wrote: > > So there are multiple options of how to fix this. This simple "fixes" > are patching glibc and gcc, but these run against my distributions > patching policy. Also, adding -O2 to CPPFLAGS or moving > -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE to CFALGS just does not

[Desperate] call for help with preparing an autotools-based package

2013-05-09 Thread Panicz Maciej Godek
Hey, I've been struggling with autoconf and automake for a few days now, and I have to admit that those aren't simple tools to use. I'm working on a small SDL-based environment for GNU guile and I decided to release it. The repository is available through mercurial on bitbucket: hg clone https:/

Re: Autoconf does not like "-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -O2"

2013-05-09 Thread Paul Eggert
On 05/09/13 08:24, Zack Weinberg wrote: > (That said, I've never been clear myself on why CFLAGS and CPPFLAGS > *are* separate, except possibly the now-long-obsolete historical > reason that some traditional preprocessors didn't accept arbitrary > compiler options.) I think that's basically it, ye

Re: Autoconf does not like "-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -O2"

2013-05-09 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 09 May 2013 11:24:27 Zack Weinberg wrote: > (That said, I've never been clear myself on why CFLAGS and CPPFLAGS > *are* separate, except possibly the now-long-obsolete historical > reason that some traditional preprocessors didn't accept arbitrary > compiler options.) because there are

Re: configure complexity

2013-05-09 Thread Bruce Korb
On 05/09/13 09:24, Mona Pinjani wrote: Hi, I downloaded complexity-1.0 from http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/complexity/ I am trying to run configure and I get this error -bash-4.1$ pwd /home/monap/complexity-1.0 -bash-4.1$ ./configure ## -- ## ## Configuring complexity 1.0 ## ##

Re: configure complexity

2013-05-09 Thread Bruce Korb
On Thu, May 09, 2013 at 07:44:59PM +, Mona Pinjani wrote: > Hi Bruce, > > Thanks for the quick reply. There is no install-sh in $HOME. Here is the > output you requested > -bash-4.1$ build-aux/config.guess > x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu > -bash-4.1$ grep 'Generated by GNU Autoconf' configure > # G

Re: [Desperate] call for help with preparing an autotools-based package

2013-05-09 Thread David A. Wheeler
> From: Panicz Maciej Godek > I've been struggling with autoconf and automake for a few days now, and I > have to admit that those aren't simple tools to use. One problem is that some tutorials are for much older versions of the autotools, and end discussing a lot of work-arounds that aren't need

Re: configure complexity

2013-05-09 Thread Mona Pinjani
Hi Bruce, Thanks for the quick reply. There is no install-sh in $HOME. Here is the output you requested -bash-4.1$ build-aux/config.guess x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu -bash-4.1$ grep 'Generated by GNU Autoconf' configure # Generated by GNU Autoconf 2.69 for Complexity 1.0. Mona On 5/9/13 2:30 PM,