Re: cache directory is not removed

2002-06-06 Thread Andreas Buening
Bill Wendling wrote: [snip] > If there's a problem with old stuff being in the cache, then that stuff > probably doesn't belong in the cache. > > For our users, they rerun configure to add different options. The generic > checks (for libraries, header files, sizeof types, etc) shouldn't need to

Re: proposal to fork the build-tools projects

2002-10-14 Thread Andreas Buening
Dean Povey wrote: > [snip] > >Maybe I am the one now who is totally not getting it, but: > > > >How could you distribute a binary to run on all the different kinds of > >systems? I use Cygwin and MinGW. Am I going to be excluded from Open > >Source packages because the package maintainer decided

Re: Fortran 9x: time for a decision

2002-10-28 Thread Andreas Buening
Steven G. Johnson wrote: > > With each year that goes by, the need to address this issue in autoconf > and automake increases. We need to make a decision, especially since > people keep submitting patches with conflicting strategies for this issue. > > Kate Hedstrom wrote: > > It seems to me tha

Re: Fortran 9x: time for a decision

2002-11-01 Thread Andreas Buening
Steven G. Johnson wrote: > > On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Andreas Buening wrote: > > You may have some f77 files that have to be preprocessed (e.g. ".F" > > file extension), you may have also some f77 files that have NOT > > to be preprocessed (due to compiler bugs; I ha

mdate-sh

2002-12-19 Thread Andreas Buening
Hello! I have a question concerning config/mdate-sh. It contains the following code: -- # Get the extended ls output of the file or directory. # On HPUX /bin/sh, "set" interprets "-rw-r--r--" as options, so the "x" below. if ls -L /dev/null 1>/dev/null 2>&1; then set - x`ls

Re: mdate-sh

2002-12-22 Thread Andreas Buening
Paul Eggert wrote: > > > Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 00:06:26 +0100 > > From: Andreas Buening <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I have a question concerning config/mdate-sh. It contains the following code: -- # Get the extended ls output of the file or directory. #

Re: mdate-sh

2002-12-23 Thread Andreas Buening
Paul Eggert wrote: > > > Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 02:22:35 +0100 > > From: Andreas Buening <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > What do you think about the following? > > Have you tested it on GNU/Linux? [snip] I apologize for this mistake. I guess, I

Re: mdate-sh

2003-01-07 Thread Andreas Buening
Paul Eggert wrote: > > > Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 14:23:08 +0100 > > From: Andreas Buening <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > +# Get the extended ls output of the root directory. > > +set - x`eval $ls_command /` > > The "eval " shouldn't be ne

Re: config.status - robust sed substitutions

2003-02-28 Thread Andreas Buening
Paul Eggert wrote: > > Robert Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > However, note that _any_ new choice of delimiter will not only fail for > > the case of the chosen character, but will also fail for the characters > > '&' and '\' which are always metacharacters on the RHS of a sed > > expr

Re: how portable is fchdir?

2003-03-02 Thread Andreas Buening
Richard Dawe wrote: > > Hello. > > Jim Meyering wrote: > > Do any of you know of reasonably modern systems > > that do *not* support fchdir? > [snip] > > I don't know if DJGPP counts as "reasonably modern", but it does not have > fchdir. Same for OS/2. [snip] Bye, Andreas -- Ein Betriebssys

Re: error: m4_popdef: undefined macro: AC_Dest

2003-03-08 Thread Andreas Buening
Bob Lockie wrote: > > On 03/06/03 22:24 Ralf Corsepius spoke thusly > > > Am Don, 2003-03-06 um 20.37 schrieb Bob Lockie: > > > >>Does anybody know how to fix this error: > >>error: m4_popdef: undefined macro: AC_Dest > >> > > > > This error indicates a broken configure script. > > > > Ralf > >

Re: Portability of preprocessor directives

2003-03-11 Thread Andreas Buening
Earnie Boyd wrote: [snip] > I would like to emphasize though, if the hobbyist isn't willing to test > for new releases using his hobby environment then support for that > environment should be removed. A package maintainer doesn't have enough > cycles to maintain code that no one uses and doesn'

Re: OT - Packages maintaining source for systems no longersupported[WAS: Re: Portability of preprocessor directives]

2003-03-13 Thread Andreas Buening
Earnie Boyd wrote: > > Andreas Buening wrote: > > Earnie Boyd wrote: [snip] > > What do you consider a hobbyist system? > > One that the vendor no longer supports and supplies fixes for and I as a > maintainer of the software no longer have no access to test it

Re: Default for libexecdir

2003-04-05 Thread Andreas Buening
John Burger wrote: [how to change the default for libexexdir] > I think the only thing you could do is "edit" the value after AC_INIT > happens, taking some care to check that the user didn't explicitly set > it on the command line - I'm not sure how to do this without using > internal details of

Re: Autoconf on new platforms

2003-07-19 Thread Andreas Buening
Dan Kalowsky wrote: [snip] > - is there a way to pre-define many of the many of the defines for an EROS > specific build? I.E. we know that gettext does not exist on EROS, but > all checks discover it because of the host OS having it Do you mean anything like a cache file containing the res

Re: Autoconf on new platforms

2003-07-20 Thread Andreas Buening
Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > On Sat, 2003-07-19 at 13:50, Andreas Buening wrote: [snip] > > # we have memcpy() > > ac_cv_func_memcpy=yes > > # but we don't have bzero() > > ac_cv_func_bzero=no > This only works for native builds. Why that? Bye, Andreas

Re: CLASSPATH separator in Makefile.am

2003-10-01 Thread Andreas Buening
David Neary wrote: > gnu/%.class: @srcdir@/src/gnu/%.java > @JAVAC@ @JAVACFLAGS@ \ > -d . \ > -classpath "${CLASSPATH}:@srcdir@/src:." \ > @srcdir@/src/gnu/xml/libxmlj/transform/*.java > > This is fine on Unix, but obviously doesn't go down

Re: Linking with relocated libraries

2004-02-10 Thread Andreas Buening
Paul Smith wrote: [the problem] > Under $ROOT will be a complete image of a working filesystem, so I'll > have $ROOT/etc, $ROOT/usr/bin, $ROOT/var, etc. etc. > > The thing about this image is that I will be taking it and actually > booting off of it: at _runtime_ the paths will be /usr/lib, not

Re: PACKAGE_NAME, PACKAGE_VERSION etc

2004-02-19 Thread Andreas Buening
Balint Joo wrote: [snip] > Neither of these are very "auto" > > Sorry, but I am still unsatisfied... If none of the other suggestions fullfills your needs, you can do it manually. Provided you want to install your myconfig.h containing the macros MY_MACRO_1 and MY_MACRO_2 into $prefix/include/m