Re: Problem with configure

2004-02-16 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Bob Proulx wrote: > Priit Voolaid wrote: > > > > prefix= --prefix/opt > > > > The PREFIX is defined as --prefix/opt instead /opt. Why is that? > > > > Where can i search for source of this problem? > > > > I have tryed, many times, with diffrenet packages and a

Re: problems compiling autoconf

2004-03-04 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Kevin P. Fleming wrote: > Anthony N. Frasso wrote: > > > base# make > > Making all in bin > > rm -f autom4te autom4te.tmp > > Using $< in a non-suffix rule context is a GNUmake idiom (line 484 of > > Makefile) > > *** Error code 1 > > GNU software usually requires GNU make. If

Re: problems compiling autoconf

2004-03-08 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Kevin P. Fleming wrote: > > > > GNU software usually requires GNU make. If you don't already have gmake > > on your system, you'll need to install make-3.80 before proceeding. > > This statement is not true. Proper GNU software does

Re: sed 4.0e (built with autoconf 2.59a) works on 45 platforms

2004-03-12 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Mon, 8 Mar 2004, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > A user was able to compile sed 4.0e on forty-odd platforms, including alphas forty-odd flavors of Linux? -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net

Re: sed 4.0e (built with autoconf 2.59a) works on 45 platforms

2004-03-12 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, 11 Mar 2004, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > > > A user was able to compile sed 4.0e on forty-odd platforms, including > alphas > > > > forty-odd flavors of Linux? > > Of course not since I mentioned the Digital and Sun native compilers (and > shells). Do you say this because you have negative rep

Re: how to disable caching of result

2004-04-05 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, 6 Apr 2004, Matthias Czapla wrote: > Hi! > > Im want to check for the presence of the GNU Readline library in a > configure script. On some systems we need to link to another library > in addition to readline for some terminal functions (e.g. tgetent). > I tried this: > > AC_CHECK_LIB(read

Re: how to disable caching of result

2004-04-05 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Mon, 5 Apr 2004, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Tue, 6 Apr 2004, Matthias Czapla wrote: > > because the result of the first test is cached. How can I tell > > autoconf to forget the result of the first test before doing it > > the second time? > > If you look in config.status you will see the form

Re: how to disable caching of result

2004-04-05 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Mon, 5 Apr 2004, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Mon, 5 Apr 2004, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > > > values take. You can then unset the cache variable that autoconf uses > > > before trying again. Here is some example code taken from one of my > > > configure scripts

Re: modification of what is displayed during compilation

2004-04-09 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Vincent Torri wrote: > > The best would be to add an argument to configure script, so that i can > > choose one of the two kinds of display. > > As long as abreviated display doesn't become the default, this seems > ok to me. I abs

Re: ac_arg_enable invalid option

2004-06-25 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, 25 Jun 2004, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 03:40:04PM -0700, > John Ling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > a message of 21 lines which said: > > > Hello, I am currently using ac_arg_enable to define several > > --enable-feature options. However, if a user were to specif

Re: ac_arg_enable invalid option

2004-06-25 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, 25 Jun 2004, John Ling wrote: > As I do not use multiple packages, from my point of view this is a very > bad behaviour. I agree that it would be nice to have the option to turn > on strict checking of such of --enable-FEATURE. > > Guess I'll have to live with this. probably right (since

Re: AC_LANG_BOOL_COMPILE_TRY(C) fails with OS vendor compilers

2004-07-05 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Mon, 5 Jul 2004, Noah Misch wrote: > On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 07:37:25AM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote: > > > On the compilers in question, what value does 1/0 return? Perhaps we > > can make use of that somehow. > > On the Compaq CC, the program ``int main() { int c = 1/0; printf("%d\n", c); }'' >

Re: AC_LANG_BOOL_COMPILE_TRY(C) fails with OS vendor compilers

2004-07-05 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Mon, 5 Jul 2004, Noah Misch wrote: > On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 06:00:07AM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > On Mon, 5 Jul 2004, Noah Misch wrote: > > > > > On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 07:37:25AM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote: > > > > > > > On the compilers in q

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