Escaping a ',' in autoconf

2005-10-25 Thread Kristis Makris
Hello, I'm having a hard time escaping a comma (',') in autoconf. I'm trying to set to a variable the regular expression: [,\s#]. I can set almost everything, except the comma: DEVEL_CONFIG_TEMPLATE_BUGID_SPLIT_REGEX="@<:@[EMAIL PROTECTED]:@@:>@" Can anyone recommend how this is done ? Thanks,

Filesystem issues ?

2006-03-02 Thread Kristis Makris
Hello, I'm experiencing a problem I can't quite figure out. When I run ./configure in a development project running a 2.4.29-smp kernel (also tried with 2.4.27-smp). I get: configure: creating ./config.status config.status: creating Makefile sed: file ./confstatemxfBJ/subs-5.sed line 34: Untermin

Re: Filesystem issues ?

2006-03-08 Thread Kristis Makris
Hi Ralf, > > When I run it again running a 2.4.20-31.9 RedHat kernel I don't get this After frustration kicked in, I reset this machine with Debian 3.0. I'm running a 2.4.18-686-smp kernel is provided by the respective Debian package. I'm still observing this problem though. > Could you make th

Re: Filesystem issues ?

2006-03-10 Thread Kristis Makris
> You are using Autoconf-2.13, which is ancient. Many problem have been > fixed since. Could you try 2.59? Or at least 2.53 which is even > shipped with Debian woody. Likely unrelated to your issue though. I installed 2.59, thanks. > Anyway, your issue is here: quoting config.status: > | [E

Re: Filesystem issues ?

2006-03-10 Thread Kristis Makris
> > was somehow a little more informative, in terms of reporting the line in > > the original configure.in where the invalid variable value was possibly > > set. So I wouldn't have to harass you folks. > > Yes, that would be nice. Difficult to achieve though, unfortunately. > The piece of code th

Ignoring failures in AC_OUTPUT

2006-03-27 Thread Kristis Makris
Hello. Is there a way to tell autoconf to ignore failures by AC_OUTPUT to create a file ? Right now, if one .in file is missing, autoconf refuses to continue. This feature could be useful when one is maintaining private sources that need help from autoconf to autogenerate some Makefiles, but yet s

Re: Ignoring failures in AC_OUTPUT

2006-03-28 Thread Kristis Makris
Hi Ralf. On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 11:21 +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Sorry for the delay -- the list server was/is having some issues. No problem. > What you could do is just not list these files in AC_CONFIG_FILES. I'm not using AC_CONFIG_FILES at all. > Then you need to adjust your build ste

Re: Ignoring failures in AC_OUTPUT

2006-03-28 Thread Kristis Makris
> Well, in modern (Autoconf 2.50+) times, > AC_OUTPUT([files ..]) > > is just equivalent to > AC_CONFIG_FILES([files ..]) > AC_OUTPUT This helps a lot. Thank you! > Well, yes, somewhere you do need to get the necessary differentiation. > If you rather want to do it by a configure argument