Re: Deleting Makefile.in in maintainer-clean

2001-05-24 Thread Gary V . Vaughan
On Wednesday 23 May 2001 7:57 pm, Eric Siegerman wrote: > On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 06:49:46PM +0100, Gary V . Vaughan wrote: > > http://sources.redhat.com/autobook/autobook/autobook_43.html#SEC43 > > (Minor typo on that page, btw: in "CVS does not preserve > relatively timestamps", delete the "ly"

[ANNOUNCE] New stable automake release: automake-1.4-p2

2001-05-24 Thread Gary V . Vaughan
Once again, we interrupt your regularly scheduled posts with another news flash: I am proud to present patch release 2 from the automake-1.4 maintenance branch. The main purpose of this release is to fix some irritating but small bugs that remained in patch release 1. It is available now fro

Re: Auto-tools & Win32 & Borland C++ Builder

2001-05-24 Thread Tom Tromey
> "Axel" == Axel Thimm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Axel> The request was for experience in making the Axel> autoconf/automake/libtool set work with Borland C++. Doing this would be fine from the automake perspective. If the compiler is too different from a Unix compiler it might be easiest t

Re: Auto-tools & Win32 & Borland C++ Builder

2001-05-24 Thread Axel Thimm
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 05:46:49AM -0400, Thomas E. Dickey wrote: > On Wed, 23 May 2001, Axel Thimm wrote: > > > may be there are some hints whether people have already tried with > > > borland compilers. > > Let's hope they are reading this list and will step forward to discuss it ;) > sure - B

Re: automake 1.4g: About `make install-strip'

2001-05-24 Thread Maciej W. Rozycki
On 23 May 2001, Tom Tromey wrote: > This is possible, but we don't recommend it. Instead we try to > approach cross builds the "autoconf way": we assume that configure > will use things like AC_CHECK_TOOL, etc. Note that I'm writing of a performance. Install-sh is a serious performance hit fo

Re: automake 1.4e, 1.4g: Depcomp does not get installed

2001-05-24 Thread Maciej W. Rozycki
On 23 May 2001, Tom Tromey wrote: > I think this patch fixed the problem: > > 2001-05-17 Tom Tromey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * m4/depend.m4 (AM_DEPENDENCIES): If depcomp doesn't exist, revert > to no dependency tracking. > > I'm guessing you forgot to run aclocal. Nope, I have a

Re: Auto-tools & Win32 & Borland C++ Builder

2001-05-24 Thread Thomas E. Dickey
On Wed, 23 May 2001, Axel Thimm wrote: > > [...] may be there are some hints whether people have already tried with > > borland compilers. > > Let's hope they are reading this list and will step forward to discuss it ;) sure - Borland C is much faster, and checks for errors that gcc doesn't both

distcheck fails with distcheck-hook in automake-1.4-p1

2001-05-24 Thread Kevin Dalley
Here's another bug which appears in 1.4-p1 as distributed by Debian. The latest CVS release handles this problem differently. I believe that the problem is fixed in the CVS release, but I'm not absolutely positive. It would be nice to get a fix in automake-1.4-p2. Hi, I tried the new automake

Re: 1.4-p1 chokes after autoupdate

2001-05-24 Thread Kevin Dalley
This bug is fixed in the CVS release, but it would be nice to have the fix in 1.4-p2. "Steve M. Robbins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I've switched to autoconf-2.50. > > After running "autoupdate" (it seemed like a good idea at the time), I > discovered that automake 1.4 can't find an

Re: Auto-tools & Win32 & Borland C++ Builder

2001-05-24 Thread Axel Thimm
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 01:43:59PM +0200, Guido Draheim wrote: > I would recommended to use atleast gmake and (ba)sh which are both available > for win/dos, and having the complete gnu fileutils is not a bad idea either. Yes, as a first step I was considering cygwin as a solid basis for sh/perl e