Re: System configuration during install

2001-07-05 Thread Tom Tromey
> "David" == Lawrence, David (STEI) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: David> I am already building using an rpm tree under by home David> directory. But it would appear that RPM wants me to place the David> files into their install location before the binary RPM is David> built. Is this a hard re

Re: _am_include and _am_quote

2001-07-05 Thread Tom Tromey
> ">" == Motoyuki Kasahara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Makefile.in defines the variables `_am_include' and `_am_quote', >> but make on that OS cannot handle variable name beginning with >> `_'. Would you rename the variables? Thanks. Another annoying vendor make bug strikes! I'll defin

RE: System configuration during install

2001-07-05 Thread Lawrence, David (STEI)
Tom, Thanks for the comments. I believe I understand your and Raja's comment related to boot-time configuration: just don't do that ;-). You bring up another point that I was working towards. My intention was to wrap up the autotools project in an RPM for the end-user's use. It appears that w

Re: Automake 1.4h

2001-07-05 Thread Tom Tromey
> "Lars" == Lars J Aas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Tom> How could we fix it? I mean, conceptually. First off, let me just say that I was considering a larger problem. I was thinking about how to solve the exponential explosion problem for any random variable whose contents we cared about.

Re: System configuration during install

2001-07-05 Thread Tom Tromey
> "David" == Lawrence, David (STEI) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: David> I did not mean to offend by offering the example, I was only David> trying to outline my desire within the terms I understood best. Don't worry, I don't think you offended anybody. David> If possible, I would like to sup

RE: System configuration during install

2001-07-05 Thread Lawrence, David (STEI)
Raja, I appreciate and agree with the desire to make a portable source project. That is what I want to do, at least within the various flavors of Linux and Unix. I inherited a project that was Red Hat specific and that is where my non-Windows experience lies. I did not mean to offend by offerin

Re: System configuration during install

2001-07-05 Thread Raja R Harinath
Hi, "Lawrence, David (STEI)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am confiscating a large project to autotools. I would like to > know if there is a recommended means of adding a daemon to the > etc/rc.d/init.d directory and then running chkconfig to add the > daemon to run during init. I think tha

System configuration during install

2001-07-05 Thread Lawrence, David (STEI)
I am confiscating a large project to autotools. I would like to know if there is a recommended means of adding a daemon to the etc/rc.d/init.d directory and then running chkconfig to add the daemon to run during init. I know how to do it in a script, do the autotools have a specific way it is rec