Re: configure feature test for .align

2000-02-15 Thread Linus Nordberg
Tom Tromey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote Fri, 4 Feb 2000 15:01:20 -0800 (PST): Linus> We are working with Autoconf based configuration for GMP. I have a certain amount of interest in this. I'd like to make sure it is possible to build GMP as a target library so that we can build it (

config.guess and config.sub (was: Re: Target Name Question)

2000-02-17 Thread Linus Nordberg
Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote 16 Feb 2000 02:21:44 -0200: On Feb 16, 2000, NIIBE Yutaka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You know, "unknown" does not look good, specifically, it's unclear > that it is intended or not. Well, it's used in the exact situation you describe

Re: config.guess and config.sub (was: Re: Target Name Question)

2000-02-23 Thread Linus Nordberg
Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote 23 Feb 2000 03:37:23 -0300: > How do one get on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list? It's not a mailing list, just an alias for whoever is the current maintainer of those files. Ah. Do you know where the ``official'' version of config.guess is expec

Re: [cygnus.egcs.patches] Patch for IFS

2000-03-17 Thread Linus Nordberg
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 -Lt $srcdir/configure conftestfile

Re: [cygnus.egcs.patches] Patch for IFS

2000-03-17 Thread Linus Nordberg
Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote 17 Mar 2000 16:05:33 +0100: I preferred the former order because so that the white chars are never last on the line. IFS=" " is more explicit than IFS=" " It may look good, but I don't think it's worth it sin

AC_CONFIG_LINKS($foo)

2000-05-25 Thread Linus Nordberg
Giving a shell variable to AC_CONFIG_LINKS like this doesn't work in recent CVS versions of Autoconf: foo="link:file" AC_CONFIG_LINKS($foo) I assume it's because `config_links' is set in config.status by configure doing cat >$CONFIG_STATUS <<\EOF [...] co

Re: AC_CONFIG_LINKS($foo)

2000-05-26 Thread Linus Nordberg
Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote 25 May 2000 18:26:51 +0200: Is it really important for you to be able to use variables? Yes. We symlink a number of source files to the build directory. The number of files may vary for different targets. The source file name varies depending on wh