Re: Perl Bug?

2001-02-01 Thread Derek R. Price
"Derek R. Price" wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > But in the very same function, if I use $_ instead of @_, which is > > what the following line does: > > $_ isn't set upon function entry in perl. Only @_. The value of your $_ is left >over from > somewhere. > > By the way, I think I ha

Re: ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS

2001-02-01 Thread Pavel Roskin
Hello, Ralf! > $(ACLOCAL_M4): configure.in \ > ./../aclocal/x.m4 \ > > AFAIS, the "strip "./"" from this patch is to blame for this: You are right, it's my bug. I'll fix it soon. Thank you. Regards, Pavel Roskin

FYI: fixing output of aclocal --verbose

2001-02-01 Thread Pavel Roskin
Hello! Aclocal didn't follow the GNU standard for the output of non-interactive programs. Now all messages printed by "aclocal --verbose" will start with "aclocal: " to make it easier to find them in the autoreconf output. Regards, Pavel Roskin _ --- ChangeLo

Re: Perl Bug?

2001-02-01 Thread Derek R. Price
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > But in the very same function, if I use $_ instead of @_, which is > what the following line does: $_ isn't set upon function entry in perl. Only @_. The value of your $_ is left over from somewhere. By the way, I think I have amtraces 99% working. Are we going to

Re: Perl Bug?

2001-02-01 Thread Russ Allbery
akim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > sub scan_autoconf_config_files > { > +print STDERR "=>> @_\n"; > +print STDERR "==>> $_\n"; Why do you expect $_ to contain anything in particular at this point? You've not assigned anything to it in this sub. $_ is a completely separate variable fro

Re: Perl Bug?

2001-02-01 Thread Pavel Roskin
Hello, Akim! > +print STDERR "=>> @_\n"; > +print STDERR "==>> $_\n"; I disagree with this style of programming. GNU standard says that the program name should start with the name of the program followed by the colon. Such patches are sometimes good for debugging, but usually only for

Perl Bug?

2001-02-01 Thread akim
Hi I think I met a bug in Perl. I'm running ~/src/am % perl --version22:29 remo This is perl, version 5.005_03 built for i386-linux Copyright 1987-1999, Larry Wall Perl may be copied only under the terms of

Re: AC_CONFIG_FILES with ":" in a subdirectory [test]

2001-02-01 Thread Kevin Ryde
Tom Tromey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I don't know when I'll fix the bug but it will definitely be before > the next release. The bandaid I'm using is below. It seems to work, but it'd be a mistake to assume I know what I'm doing. --- automake.in.old Fri Feb 2 06:29:06 2001 +++ automake

config.status and CONFIG_LINKS

2001-02-01 Thread Kevin Ryde
When config.status is invoked to regenerate a Makefile, I think it might be possible to give an empty CONFIG_LINKS and CONFIG_COMMANDS as well as the current empty CONFIG_HEADERS, to speed up regeneration when there's a bunch of links. * automake.in (handle_configure): Call config.status

Re: Who is supposed to set @input_files?

2001-02-01 Thread Michael Bletzinger
Tom Tromey wrote: > > > "Michael" == Michael Bletzinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Michael> cvs automake (as of this morning) behaves differently than automake > Michael> 1.4. 1.4 scanned the SUBDIR targets to locate Makefile.am's. > > That's not the case. Automake has always scanned