Re: Install failures are ignored

2002-08-29 Thread Pavel Roskin
Hello, Akim and Tom! > Pavel> The problem happens quite often because install cannot > Pavel> overwrite running executable files and happily goes ahead and > Pavel> installs data files. I have been fooled by this two or three > Pavel> times. > > I can't reproduce it with ash. Could you write s

Q: Change from 1.4 to 1.5 of `include' or `:=' interpretation??

2002-08-29 Thread David Petrou
Hi. I have a project (collection of configure.in, Makefile.am's, etc.) that automake 1.4 worked fine on. But when I try automake 1.5 I get all sorts of errors. To me, it looks like the behavior of `include' might have changed, but I don't see anything automake's NEWS or Changelog files to sugge

Re: (no subject)

2002-08-29 Thread Alex Hornby
On Thu, 2002-08-29 at 10:57, Akim Demaille wrote: > > | There are compilers which don't accept `.cc' but need `.cpp' for C++ > | files. Among them are z/OS (by default) and various compilers for > | MS-DOS and Windows. What about support for a CXXEXT variable? It is > | quite easy to add a rul

Re: (no subject)

2002-08-29 Thread Akim Demaille
| There are compilers which don't accept `.cc' but need `.cpp' for C++ | files. Among them are z/OS (by default) and various compilers for | MS-DOS and Windows. What about support for a CXXEXT variable? It is | quite easy to add a rule | | .cc.cpp: | $(CP) $< $@ Well, this is a problem

Re: OBJEXT in implicit rules

2002-08-29 Thread Akim Demaille
(Why bug-autoconf???) | Is the use of variables in implicit rules portable? | | .c.$(OBJEXT): | ... I don't know. Maybe Automake folks do?