canonical autogen.sh?

2001-09-18 Thread Steven G. Johnson
I really like the autogen.sh file that comes with most GNOME programs, and steal it for many of my own programs. This sort of thing is quite useful for people using tools like automake and autoconf. Has there been any consideration of putting together a "standard" autogen.sh script and including

setting debug info in automake

2001-09-18 Thread Kedrowski, Philip R.
Hi, I would like to know how to set the debugging info when compiling and linking files using the autoconf and automake tools. I have tried adding the line: CFLAGS = -g in my Makefile.am and when I compile and link using make it shows up as: gcc -g *.o etc implying that the debugging info is

Re: New documentation targets (pdf & txt)

2001-09-18 Thread akim
On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 03:26:39PM -0400, Derek Robert Price wrote: > Derek Robert Price wrote: > > > *.texinfo files in case anyone is interested. Both rules use makeinfo > > so they shouldn't create any new dependencies and the input and output > > Excuse me. The PDF rule does use texi2dvi a

Re: New documentation targets (pdf & txt)

2001-09-18 Thread Derek Robert Price
Derek Robert Price wrote: > *.texinfo files in case anyone is interested. Both rules use makeinfo > so they shouldn't create any new dependencies and the input and output Excuse me. The PDF rule does use texi2dvi as well, but that seems to be used in Automake generated `Makefile.in's already f

New documentation targets (pdf & txt)

2001-09-18 Thread Derek Robert Price
Here are several generic rules for creation of PDF and ASCII output from *.texinfo files in case anyone is interested. Both rules use makeinfo so they shouldn't create any new dependencies and the input and output file sets are the same as for *.info files, except do a s/\.info$/.pdf/ or s/\.info

Re: Portability of find(1)

2001-09-18 Thread Paul Eggert
> From: Sascha Schumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 16:00:11 +0200 (CEST) > > '{}' can only be used portably, if it is a separate argument. It's worse than that. Not only must '{}' be separate and not part of any other argument, it must not be followed by another argument '

Re: Portability of find(1)

2001-09-18 Thread Sascha Schumann
> I'm looking for information on the portability of find(1). Please, > send me everything you know. In particular, I think I'm understanding > that `{}' is portably replaced by the argument only when alone, i.e., > exactly '{}' can only be used portable, if it is a separate argument. A

Re: Portability of find(1)

2001-09-18 Thread Earnie Boyd
Akim Demaille wrote: > > Hi People! > > I'm looking for information on the portability of find(1). Please, > send me everything you know. In particular, I think I'm understanding > that `{}' is portably replaced by the argument only when alone, i.e., > exactly > > find ... {} ... > >

Portability of find(1)

2001-09-18 Thread Akim Demaille
Hi People! I'm looking for information on the portability of find(1). Please, send me everything you know. In particular, I think I'm understanding that `{}' is portably replaced by the argument only when alone, i.e., exactly find ... {} ... and not find ... "foo: \{\}" ...