Re: Conventions on build variables

2019-08-26 Thread Sébastien Hinderer
Dear Bob, Many thanks for your response and sorry aobut the delay of mine. Bob Friesenhahn (2019/08/08 08:05 -0500): > On Thu, 8 Aug 2019, Sébastien Hinderer wrote: > > > Dear all, > > > > Are there some conventions about the properties a build system should > > have regarding certain standard bu

Re: Conventions on build variables

2019-08-26 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Mon, 26 Aug 2019, Sébastien Hinderer wrote: For instance, regarding variables such as CC or CFLAGS, when they are passed to configure, should they be recorded somewhere so that a future invocation of make takes them into account? Yes, they should normally be recorded in the Makefile so that

Re: Conventions on build variables

2019-08-26 Thread Nick Bowler
On 8/26/19, Sébastien Hinderer wrote: > Similarly, I kind of remember that if, say, make install is invoked with > a different value of PREFIX that value must be taken into acocunt and > that it is required that PREFIX can have different values during make > and make isntall. I am wondering whethe

testsuite could basename the "Generated from"

2019-08-26 Thread Luke Mewburn
Hi all, The autotest testsuite as generated by AT_INIT() (from autoconf 2.69) puts the full path into the generated file, which can result in "regen churn" when different checkout paths are used. E.g., if I've regenerated in a "build" subdir of a checkout with something like: mkdir build

Re: testsuite could basename the "Generated from"

2019-08-26 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Tue, 27 Aug 2019, Luke Mewburn wrote: I notice that autoconf generating configure, and automake generating Makefile.in both store the basename of the source file in the comments. Currently I'm using the following to simulate this in testsuite.at after AT_INIT(): m4_cleardivert([HEADER