ac macros and ac releases

2006-02-03 Thread Thomas Porschberg
Hi, how can I find out when a certain autoconf macro was introduced by autoconf ? E.g. when I run autoconf with the --warnings=all option I get good advices how to improve my macros. However I guess when I upgrade the macros I'm indeed on top with the current autoconf release but possibly break so

Re: ac macros and ac releases

2006-02-03 Thread Thomas Porschberg
Wildenhues wrote: > Hi Thomas, > > * Thomas Porschberg wrote on Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 08:35:13AM CET: > > > > how can I find out when a certain autoconf macro was > > introduced by autoconf ? > > Here's what I do to find out, in decreasing order of preference:

Re: unit testing with autotools

2006-03-14 Thread Thomas Porschberg
Am Tue, 14 Mar 2006 11:32:31 -0500 schrieb Chris Pickett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > [[ Sorry, I originally sent this from an unsubscribed account ]] > > Original Message > Subject: Re: unit testing with autotools > Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 11:25:06 -0500 > From: Chris Pickett <[EMAIL

Re: macro reuse

2006-05-24 Thread Thomas Porschberg
Hi, for my problem with the m4 macros for boost I think I can go the following way: I provide ac_boost_base.m4 which does the version check and defines BOOST_CPPFLAGS, BOOST_LDFLAGS. Boost users who only want use the template libs from boost have only to include this macro. Boost users who want u

m4 macro default behavior

2006-07-17 Thread Thomas Porschberg
Hi, I wrote some m4 macros for the boost libraries(see http://randspringer.de/boost/index.html). ATM the default behavior is that the user has to give --with-boost, --with-boost-files-date-time to the configure script in order to set the boost compile/linker flags (the last parameter of AC_ARG

autotest appropriated ?

2006-09-11 Thread Thomas Porschberg
Hi, I have to establish a test system on Unix/Linux systems which has to run/test Java, PLSQL, C/C++ and Shell programs. Actually it should be able to run a complete test on a (sub)project. My first idea was to provide several Makefiles and some shell scripts for that task but maybe the purpose o

what does not belong in a distribution

2007-01-16 Thread Thomas Porschberg
Hi, we use autoconf, automake and libtool for our project. I created a tarball with "make dist" and the latest set of the GNU build utils (autoconf 2.61, automake 1.10, libtool 1.5.22) and sent it to another programmer. The other programmer run configure, compiled the program and got a segmentat