GNU make: new pretest 3.78.92 available.

2000-03-28 Thread Paul D. Smith
Sorry for the lengthy delay between this and the last pretest; I got whacked with a ton of unexpected work (gotta love "web speed"! :-/ ;) Anyway, this is a release candidate. If you have outstanding bugs that aren't in the DB, please let me know. ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/make/make-3.78.92.tar

sub-project link problem

2000-03-28 Thread Lars J. Aas
Hi, After building a C++ library (autoconf/automake/libtool setup), the build process continues in a sub-project (a subdir with it's own configure setup) to build some example programs using the library¹. This is done with this line: AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS(examples) The example programs are also

Re: Absolute srcdir

2000-03-28 Thread Lars Hecking
Lars J. Aas writes: > BTW, is anyone cataloguing these kinds of bourne shell bugs/anomalies > somewhere? Seems like something like that would be a *very* useful resource > for portable shell script programmers... > > Lars J There is a Unix shell FAQ out there, but the document I have here i

Re: Absolute srcdir

2000-03-28 Thread Lars J. Aas
BTW, is anyone cataloguing these kinds of bourne shell bugs/anomalies somewhere? Seems like something like that would be a *very* useful resource for portable shell script programmers... Lars J

Re: Absolute srcdir

2000-03-28 Thread Lars J. Aas
On Mon, Mar 27, 2000 at 02:58:44PM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote: : On Mar 27, 2000, Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : > I'm highly tempted to consider this a bash bug : : So am I. Which `bash' is that? I've just tested 2.04, and it *does* : present the bug :-( The same goes for GNU ba

Re: Absolute srcdir

2000-03-28 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Ralf" == Ralf Corsepius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ralf> What about this fragment from acgeneral.m4 (~line 4407): Ralf> [[/\\$]]* | ?:[[/\\]]*) INSTALL="$ac_given_INSTALL" ;; Ralf> There, [[/\\$]]* is used instead of [[/\\]]*. For variables which can contain ${prefix} and such.

Re: Absolute srcdir

2000-03-28 Thread Akim Demaille
| Alexandre Oliva wrote: | > On Mar 27, 2000, Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > | > > I'm highly tempted to consider this a bash bug | > | > So am I. Which `bash' is that? I've just tested 2.04, and it *does* | > present the bug :-( | | # bash --version | GNU bash, version 2.03.0(1)