> "Paul" == Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Paul> No. E.g. grep's configure.in says:
Paul> LIBOBJS=`echo $LIBOBJS|sed 's/\.o /\$U.o /g;s/\.o$/\$U.o/'`
Paul> and bison's aclocal.m4 says:
Paul> echo timestamp > `echo <<$>>am_file | sed -e 's%:.*%%' -e
Paul> 's%[^/]*$%%'`stamp-h$
> "Olly" == Olly Betts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Olly> If you ask someone in the UK to draw you a `pound sign' you'll
Olly> get one of these: `£' (that's the British currency symbol in
Olly> case something is eating high bits or you aren't reading this in
Olly> latin1). And in fact the HTM
| Hi,
Hi!
CCed to Autoconf because there is an issue which we'll need to discuss
(again).
| the appended patch fixes some tests to produce correct results even
| if compiled with the stricter checking of g++ >= 2.95.
OK, you do speak of a C++ compiler and C tests :) Are you using
CC=g++? U
> "Eric" == Eric Christopher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Eric> This problem pretty much happens on any machine without a
Eric> compiler installed. What would be ideal is if config.guess
Eric> didn't require a compiler.
Can it happen that one needs the information given by config.guess if
sh
> "Assar" == Assar Westerlund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Assar> :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/cvs module `config'.
Thanks!
> "Lars" == Lars J Aas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Lars> Any chance my little "m4_noquote"-macro will make it into
Lars> autoconf?
I like it. Send a patch!
Akim
> "Lars" == Lars J Aas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Lars> define([m4_noquote],[changequote(,)$1changequote([,])])
Actually there's a flow in your macro (untested, but it seems clear):
just try with $1=foo, and I'll bet you'll get a nice foochangequote in
the output. The solution, of course,
>>>>> "Lars" == Lars J Aas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Lars> On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 06:43:41PM +0100, Akim Demaille wrote: :
Lars> >>>>> "Lars" == Lars J Aas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : : Lars>
Lars> define([m4_noquote]
> "Lars" == Lars J Aas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Lars> It would be nice to have a couple of m4 push/popquote macros...
The idea seduced René, I've been faster than you on this one :P
| Am Mon, 06 Mar 2000 schrieb Akim Demaille:
| >| OK, how about this one?
| >
| >Sorry, I don't mean to be pain, but I still have some comments :) Do
| >the other people consider I am being painful? (Real question)
|
| A real pein :-).
:)
| >Still, my comment would be t
> "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> I have implemented support for $.@, which is [$1].[$2]. etc. (`.'
>> is the separator, defaults to comma), and for $.*, which is
>> smash($1).smash($2). etc., where `.' defaults to `:', and `smash'
>> singles out all the white sp
>>>>> "Glenn" == Glenn Chambers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Glenn> Akim Demaille writes:
>> #ifdef and #ifndef are banished from Autoconf, use only #if and#if
>> !.
Glenn> Interesting trivium: unless I mis-remember, the variant of the
Glenn&
| On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 10:37:29AM +0100, Akim Demaille wrote:
| : In fact, can someone teach me (point me to a good example) how to
| : split strings such as
| :
| : list="'first element' 'second' 'third one'"
| : for elt in $list
|
| I managed to mak
Could you send a patch for this one too?
Akim
I'm OK with this patch. I'll apply the changes for the headers at
checkin if Franz doesn't have time to. One yes is still expected.
Akim
> "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Alexandre> You got it :-)
Well, finally I have a little problem: when you look at the full
context, there is already unistd.h above. I moved the #include block
which was discussed above the GETPAGESIZE one (originally it was
below
| On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 11:50:46AM +0100, Akim Demaille wrote:
| : | eval set $list
| : | while test $# -gt 0; do
| : | echo $1
| : | shift
| : | done
| :
| : Excellent, thanks! I think this is the best means to handle the list
| : here.
|
| The most elegant solution I found (can't
> "Lars" == Lars J Aas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Lars> Actually, I was informed by John W. Eaton through private email
Lars> that the 'in "$@"' part is the default and can therefore be
Lars> dropped. My opinion on this (which is influenced by my personal
Lars> sh-scripting conventions) is
> "Lars" == Lars J Aas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Lars> You can 'shift' out the dummy at once, though, and leave out the
Lars> case for it (I assume you'll have a switch/case inside the for
Lars> loop), but then you must use the ${1+"$@"} approach.
That's what I meant, dummy could be anythi
I would like to suggest again something which has been rejected the
first time...
I would like Autoconf to know PACKAGE and VERSION too. Of course it
is not essential to it as it is for Automake, but I would like it for
several small issues, each time for esthetic purposes.
1. It would allow t
this works too, but is has the potential danger of an
Ralf> endless loop if the replacement triggers another match (eg: add
Ralf> `;t t' to the last line, too).
Oh, yes, yes, that's why I had changed it :(
This is no risk with #undef -> #define, but there is that danger
with #de
>>>>> "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Alexandre> On Mar 1, 2000, Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> | BTW, config.guess and config.sub need synchronizing with the main
>> repository.
>> I think so to,
That's fine with me, but I still would like to know why you didn't
prefer using the right includes.
Akim
Hi!
Let's raise this question again, I'm really puzzled, and I'd like to
be explained what is going on.
Below is the current AC_TRY_CPP, but other AC_TRY have more or less
the same code. In particular, pay attention to the various `rm
conftest'.
| # AC_TRY_CPP(INCLUDES, [ACTION-IF-TRUE], [AC
> "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Alexandre> On Mar 2, 2000, "Lars J. Aas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> define([m4_noquote],
>> [changequote(-=<{,}>=-)$1-=<{}>=-changequote([,])])
>> That's my final offer :)
Alexandre> I must say that I find this extremely ugly (
eneral.m4 (AC_OUTPUT_FILES): Treat DOS-style paths (?:*') as
+ absolute.
+ (AC_OUTPUT_SUBDIRS): Likewise.
+ (AC_PATH_PROG): Make pattern for matching DOS-style paths the same
+ as that used in AC_OUTPUT_FILES and AC_OUTPUT_SUBDIRS.
+
2000-02-21 Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
*
> "Earnie" == Earnie Boyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Earnie> My vote would be to remove conftest at the front of the
Earnie> script, if that's even necessary, and leave it for the user to
Earnie> look at when script exists. Then let `make clean' handle the
Earnie> removal of conftest.
We m
> "Earnie" == Earnie Boyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Earnie> config.log doesn't contain the compilers failure if I remember
Earnie> correctly. Only where in configure that it is.
Hm, what do you mean?
/tmp % cat configure.in
AC_INIT
AC_PROG_CC
AC_TRY_COMPILE([int main () { syntax error}])
> "Lars" == Lars J Aas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Lars> I want to use diverts in some macros, and wonder if there is any
Lars> divert management system for reserving/freeing divert numbers in
Lars> autoconf (couldn't find any with a quick grep at least). The
Lars> point is, if other macros
> "Franz" == Franz Sirl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Franz> If you tell me how to do it right and platform-independent, I
Franz> will happily come up with another patch.
Just look for the right header on a sane system, and include it under
the condition HAVE_foo_H. It is better to AC_CHECK_H
> "Lars" == Lars J Aas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Lars> In my book, this would be
Lars> m4_diversion_reserve([AC_DIVERSION_KILL], -1) ...
Currently diversion are so little used that it'd be an overkill.
Lars> Something along these lines would make me sleep better at night
Lars> ;)
How
> "Lars" == Lars J Aas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Lars> I'm just thinking of Autoconf - that's where my own macros have
Lars> to cooperate with macros I don't know anything about. Overkill
Lars> or not, such a resource management system wouldn't have to be
Lars> very advanced...
Right. Bu
> "Lars" == Lars J Aas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Lars> I don't, yet. It was just something I was pondering on. I
Lars> actually figured out a couple of other ways to do essentially
Lars> the same thing, so I guess I won't be needing diversions...
Right, diversions are not that powerful,
> "Earnie" == Earnie Boyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Earnie> I'll investigate further. Most of my experience with autoconf
Earnie> is with Cygwin and MinGW and I don't remember seeing anything
Earnie> that detailed.
Something I'd like to call a flaw with config.log is that it is
cleared ea
>
> On Mar 3, 2000, Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > | [/\\*] | [A-z]:[/\\*]
>
> > You probably mean
>
> > [/\\]* | [A-z]:[/\\]* )
>
> Actually
>
> [/\\]* | [A-Za-z]:[/\\]* )
>
My understanding was that Mark says the
>
> On Mar 3, 2000, Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I would like to understand why there are three `rm' while one seems
> > way enough. It seems like the author took a special care to remove
> > the conftest files before the user can touch
>
> Akim, I checked today and found out that there have been updates to the
> autoconf cvs. When will the cvs-commit mailing list move to the new site so
> we can get notified immediately?
I just don't know. The subversions team, AFAIK, is working on it, but
there is nothing yet running.
> An
The patch is in the queue, and will probably be applied today.
Akim
> "Ian" == Ian Lance Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Akim> I would like to understand why there are three `rm' while one
Akim> seems way enough. It seems like the author took a special care
Akim> to remove the conftest files before the user can touch them.
Ian> I don't know. This is a g
| OK, how about this one?
Sorry, I don't mean to be pain, but I still have some comments :) Do
the other people consider I am being painful? (Real question)
Still, my comment would be that
| #ifdef __cplusplus
| -extern "C" { void *malloc(unsigned); }
| +# ifdef HAVE_STDLIB_H
| +# include
|
| AC_DEFUN([SIM_AC_ITERATOR],
| [AC_DIVERT_PUSH([AC_DIVERSION_INIT])dnl
You should avoid playing with Autoconf's diversions. They are
internals only, and there is no guarantee they won't change. As a
matter of fact, there is a patch in the queue which removes
AC_DIVERSION_INIT (renames actuall
| Hello!
| > I would like Autoconf to know PACKAGE and VERSION too. Of course it
| > is not essential to it as it is for Automake, but I would like it for
| > several small issues, each time for esthetic purposes.
| >
| > 3. It would allow to solve parts of the wishes for a deep --help: each
|
Does someone know how `\?' is portable in sed?
Akim
> "Lars" == Lars J Aas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Lars> I'd like to add a few commands to config.status to be executed
Lars> before configu.status creates any files (to run mkdir to
Lars> facilitate some multi- level SUBDIRS directories). There's a
Lars> diversion that would let me do this,
> "Earnie" == Earnie Boyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Earnie> Are you asking about the metacharacter ? which indicates
Earnie> "matches zero or one occurences of the preceding regular
Earnie> expression" or the quoted metacharacter \? which indicates a
Earnie> literal `?'?
The meta char.
E
>>>>> "Greg" == Greg A Woods <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Greg> [ On , March 9, 2000 at 19:33:12 (+0100), Akim Demaille wrote: ]
>> Subject: Re: Portability of `?' in sed
>>
>> I think the answer from Nicolas Joly demonstrate it is not.
&
The Autoconf test suite is filter in two different places: once to
avoid testing all the macros, since some of them are already run by
other tests etc., and once to check that the configure scripts do stay
within their name space (it does think by saving the env, and
comparing it later, filteri
> "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> I'd like to avoid the Automake third arg trick to disable
>> AC_DEFINE, there are probably more esthetic means to achieve this.
Alexandre> How about simply not defining it at all? People can always
Alexandre> AC_DEFINE or AC_SU
| On Mar 10, 2000, Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| > and it turns out that his sed (the very same bloody sed which makes
| > writing config.status a real challenge) doesn't seem to support the
| > alternation at all
|
| Yup, that's right. Alternatio
> "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Hm, right, but it is so common, that providing a means to shorten
>> the configure.in would be welcome.
Alexandre> As long as there's a way to avoid having them defined, I'm
Alexandre> all for it.
OK.
>> AC_SUBST is cost les
>>>>> "Akim" == Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Akim> Indeed, but I bet anchors cannot portably be embedded in
Akim> alternations.
I was probably too pessimistic,
> echo "toto" | egrep -e 'bar|^toto$'
toto
> uname -a
I
> "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Indeed, but I bet anchors cannot portably be embedded in
>> alternations.
Alexandre> Does this apply to egrep too?
In fact I've thought all the RE engines were the same, so a failing
sed would be a failing egrep. But actually
This might be useful for some: better support of Autoconf in C-x 4 a:
--- /tmp/zshb9hLGx Fri Mar 10 13:21:59 2000
+++ add-log.el Wed Mar 1 18:16:05 2000
@@ -649,6 +649,10 @@
(if (re-search-backward "^sub[ \t]+\\([^ \t\n]+\\)" nil t)
(buffer-substring
> "Felix" == Felix Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Felix> yes, afaik it's only sed /\(^foo$\)/ that isn't portable.
Felix> egrep '(^foo$)' and '^foo|bar$' should be fine.
Good news, thanks.
Hey, I have an obscure idea :-]
There is one regexp engine I know very well, and will always be the
Would someone have already written a small wrapper around patch which
would take care of guessing the -p, and the special case of
ChangeLogs? Something which would update the date, and insert the
entry at the top of ChangeLog, instead of letting patch try to find
the place thanks to context (whi
| On Mar 10, 2000, Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| > Hey, I have an obscure idea :-]
| ^ :-)
|
| > How about using m4 to filter out those guys :)
|
| Yep, I had thought of that. But if we can make egrep work, m4 is
| overkill.
Nah, you
Nicolas, how about the following patch?
Akim
Index: tests/Makefile.am
===
RCS file: /cvs/autoconf/tests/Makefile.am,v
retrieving revision 1.16
diff -u -r1.16 Makefile.am
--- tests/Makefile.am 2000/03/08 16:12:10 1.16
+++ tes
>>>>> "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Alexandre> On Mar 10, 2000, Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> This might be useful for some: better support of Autoconf in C-x 4
>> a:
Alexandre> Great! Make sure y
Arg, sorry, I sent an incomplete patch, forget it.
Akim
Index: tests/Makefile.am
===
RCS file: /cvs/autoconf/tests/Makefile.am,v
retrieving revision 1.16
diff -u -r1.16 Makefile.am
--- tests/Makefile.am 2000/03/08 16:12:10 1
Great, Alexandre. Thanks!
> "Joseph" == Joseph S Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Joseph> The problems with temporary file security in autoconf's shell
Joseph> scripts (predictable file names in /tmp, opened without
Joseph> O_EXCL) have been well known for a long time, though it seems
Joseph> still not fixed in CVS.
> "John" == John David Anglin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
John> The following patch adds LINENO and RANDOM to shell variables
John> that change in actest.m4.
Thanks, will soon be installed.
>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Tromey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>>>> "Akim" == Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Akim> I just noticed that Automake replaces all the \-continuation
Akim> lines with a single space, so I can to
| AC_DEFUN(SIM_CHECK_OPENGL,[
| dnl Autoconf is a developer tool, so don't bother to support older versions.
| AC_PREREQ([2.14.1])
Please, don't depend on this, it does not exist.
| case "$host_os" in
Where does this come from?
| for i in -lMesaGL -lGL "-lMesaGLU -lMesaGL" "-lGLU -lG
> "Morten" == Morten Eriksen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Please, don't depend on this, it does not exist.
Morten> Guys, get your ass in gear and release a new version of
Morten> Autoconf, please -- so we don't have to live on the bleeding
Morten> edge.
:)
Morten> (Hey, just kidding.) :^
> "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Alexandre> Yep, that's a very important concern. We don't want people
Alexandre> to start spreading word that autoconf introduces security
Alexandre> holes in your software.
Definitely. And actually working on Autoconf had become
>>>>> "Akim" == Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Akim> | case "$host_os" in
Akim> Where does this come from?
Morten> Hmm, from libtool's ltconfig. Could a host OS identifier be
Morten> found somewhere by using "standard&q
> "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Gosh, I love this tortured way to do simple things. Just give them
>> a couple a weeks, and the Debian guys will come up requiring that
>> we use mktemp :)
Alexandre> Good idea :-) :-) (indeed, this would be perfect way to
Alex
> "Paul" == Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Akim> sys/stat.h: Portable or not?
Paul> I think it's portable to all targets of interest to GNU
Paul> applications. Many GNU applications include
Paul> without checking for its inclusion. has been
Paul> supported by every Unix-like sy
> "Paul" == Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Paul> There are other portable approaches to forcing an error based on
Paul> preprocessor computations (e.g. one can declare an array with a
Paul> negative size), but ` #error "foo"' is the cleanest one I know.
So I am very much in favor of
|From: Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|Date: 15 Mar 2000 09:44:55 +0100
|
|Akim> sys/stat.h: Portable or not?
|
|Paul> I think it's portable to all targets of interest to GNU applications.
|
|OK, thanks. Shall we include it in the set of default inc
>>>>> "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Alexandre> On Mar 15, 2000, Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Shall we include it in the set of default includes?
Alexandre> Not without `#if HAVE_SYS_STAT_H'.
> "T" == T E Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Also, the above set of default includes is traditional, but is
>> there any reason not to use elif? Lemme bet, not KnR?
T> yes (HP's bundled compiler silently truncates the file).
Bwa ha ha! Man, [EMAIL PROTECTED] is much better than al
| On Mar 13, 2000, "Gary V. Vaughan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| > I would still like to see {auto{conf,make},libtool} use Ralf
| > Engelschall's shtool (or a variant of it) to encapsulate the
| > portability issues of things like mkdir -p and mkdir -m 700 into a
| > single script rather than sc
> "John" == John David Anglin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
John> The following patch adds LINENO and RANDOM to shell variables
John> that change in actest.m4.
Thanks, applied. Next time, please, include a ChangeLog.
What shell changes RANDOM? Bash and zsh both support it, but it
changes on
> "Assar" == Assar Westerlund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Assar> Doing it this way seems to work, but is somewhat less that
Assar> perfect:
Assar> AC_CHECK_PROG(FOO, foo, $ac_dir/foo, foo-fail,
Assar> "$PATH:/magic/dir")
ac_dir is an internal data which may disapear.
Assar> So, what do pe
Portable or not? Some acspecific tests check its existence, others
don't. Which is right? (Should definitely be documented).
Akim
>>>>> "Earnie" == Earnie Boyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Earnie> --- Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -8<-
>> As for mkdir -m, it seems to me that
>>
>> (umask 700 && mkdir /tmp/foo)
Grmph, 077.
>>
>>
> "Earnie" == Earnie Boyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Let it be for speed issues, I'm in favor of /tmp via TMPDIR. This
Earnie> You missed the point; /tmp isn't portable, it doesn't always
Earnie> exist (E.G.: MSDOS or WINDOWS). At least with TMPDIR I can
Earnie> set it to be whatever I
| On Feb 2, 2000, Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| >>>>>> "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| Alexandre> Only CVS autoconf accepts implicitly quotes backticks in
| Alexandre> MSGs. But it complains if backtick is
>>>>> "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Alexandre> On Mar 13, 2000, Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> And again, I shall emphasize that this little comfort is a myth:
>> you *need* to update Automake if you
> "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Alexandre> I'd really prefer to have a stable release of automake with
Alexandre> the many the new features introduced since release 1.4,
Alexandre> particularly user-side dependency tracking, before starting
Alexandre> to rely on C
> "Tom" == Tom Tromey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Tom> Maybe configure should set IFS by default?
I agree. I don't understand well why we don't define the IFS to
space, tab and nl at the top of configure, and stop providing defaults
here and there (AC_PROG_INSTALL for instance has IFS="${IF
> "Martin" == Martin Buchholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Martin> It feels like the body of AC_OUTPUT has different quoting
Martin> levels between 2.13 and latest CVS.
This has been fixed, thanks for the report!
Akim
>>>>> "Martin" == Martin Buchholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>>>> "AD" == Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
AD> We can introduce a Copyright diversion, where you could easily
AD> append your notices. Would that be
Thanks!
| Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
| 16 Mar 2000 19:16:48 +0100:
|
|In fact if someone has broken IFS, typically lacking nl, then the
|sanity check from Automake will fail, telling the there is a severe
|clock skew, while it's only the
|
| set X `ls
(fwd)
| From: Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| Date: 27 Dec 1999 12:47:58 +0100
|
| >>>>> "itojun" == itojun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
|
| itojun> If I can get cvs access to autoconf repository, that will
| itojun> really help me synchronize the docu
> "Linus" == Linus Nordberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Linus> It may look good, but I don't think it's worth it since it
Linus> doesn't work with /bin/sh on FreeBSD. ;-)
In fact I had completely overlooked your issue. I was not aware of
this feature, and didn't understand well what the man
> "Marc" == Marc Espie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Hi Marc,
Marc> I believe this to be of benefit to everybody... Apart from
Marc> copyright issues, which autoconf people probably don't really
Marc> care about (or probably not in the same direction that we do),
Marc> this does mean that auto
| The following can't be done on DOS/WIN32:
| #! /bin/sh
| exec > foo
| mv foo bar
|
|
| Nor can
|
| #! /bin/sh
| exec > foo
| rm -f foo
|
|
| This break autoheader for Win32.
What fix do you suggest?
| Hi,
| I have a question about the stability of the current cvs version of
| autoconf. Currently I am using autoconf-2.13 under cygwin.
| I am trying to bulld libGGI. Unfortunately, autoheader fails because of
| the problem described by Eanie Boyd described in a previous posting.
|
|
> "John" == John Fortin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
John> Yes, I can. Unfortunately, I am at work and my log files are at
John> home. I'll post them tonight.
Thanks!
John> autoconf built fine ( except for the man files ). I ran the
What problem did you meet with man pages? It's a failu
| help2man requires perl (which I have), but also requires the POSIX.pm
| module, which does not seem to be available.
OK, thanks, this will have to be tested.
| checking for working help2man... missing
Huh? We have a communication problem here, I consider a success that
help2man is conside
> "Juergen" == Juergen A Erhard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Juergen> First of all, undocumented features can't be relied
Juergen> upon... if it's not documented, it might not exist in the
Juergen> next version.
I agree, it's just a matter of struggling with René if needed :)
Juergen> Now,
he situation is.
Maintainers are:
Akim Demaille
Paul Eggert
Matthew Langston
Jim Meyering
Alexandre Oliva
Tom Tromey
Akim
| + grep '^#[a-z]*[ ][ ]*GIIPATHTAG[ ]*$' /tmp/ah20650.out
| + echo 'autoheader: No template for symbol `GIIPATHTAG'\'''
| autoheader: No template for symbol `GIIPATHTAG'
| + status=1
Your problem is here. autoheader, when checking if all the symbols
have a template has a pattern whi
Hi!
There is this bug report
I would however like to make a suggestion: that the line
automatically prepended to files generated by configure - e.g.
"# Generated automatically from buildNewMakefile.in by configure."
is suppressed for files for which the first line is of the fo
> "Tom" == Tom Tromey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Akim> Can we just stop producing automatically this line? There is
Akim> still @configure_input@ which should be used to output this
Akim> line.
Tom> I'd rather we keep producing it for Makefile at least.
I'm not strongly opposed to it, but
You are right, thanks!
Akim
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