Re: 1,000 year backward compatability of tools

2003-02-20 Thread Chris Albertson
I have a few "antique" computers. The first Compaq, A very early Sun SPARC 1. a Mac before they offered a hard drive and others Had a VAX too, but no place to store it and some guy offered me $1,500 for the tape drive... These machines are only worth keeping if you still have the old software t

Re: AM_PATH_PYTHON and Python C interface headers

2003-02-20 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
>>> "Raphaël" == Raphaël Poss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Raphaël> I suffer with Autoconf/Automake when Raphaël> looking for the correct include path to find Python C Raphaël> interface headers. Could something be done about this Raphaël> ? Hi Raph! See the end of http://article.gmane.org/g

Re: AM_PATH_PYTHON and Python C interface headers

2003-02-20 Thread Paul F. Kunz
> On Thu, 20 Feb 2003 23:46:53 +0100, =?iso-8859-1?q?Rapha=EBl?= Poss ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > This is a feature request. > I have been writing several SWIG interfaces for a while, and I > suffer with Autoconf/Automake when looking for the correct include > path to find Python C interfac

AM_PATH_PYTHON and Python C interface headers

2003-02-20 Thread Raphaël Poss
This is a feature request. I have been writing several SWIG interfaces for a while, and I suffer with Autoconf/Automake when looking for the correct include path to find Python C interface headers. Could something be done about this ? Cheers, -- /---

Re: yacc/lex dependency order

2003-02-20 Thread mcmahill
thanks! I'd been reading the 1.7.2 manual... Its all working for me now. On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: > >>> "mcmahill" == mcmahill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [...] > > mcmahill> The problem I'm having is that the lex source > mcmahill> includes a header generated

Re: Archives and/or Java

2003-02-20 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
>>> "Simon" == Simon Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] >> (*) I'm assuming _LIBRARIES and _LTLIBRARIES have been merged >> first. Simon> ... since jars would be an exception then, since they Simon> are not built with libtool as all other libraries are. Sorry, the plan is *not* to al

Re: Archives and/or Java

2003-02-20 Thread Simon Richter
Alexandre, [Option 1: .jar files are libraries; Option 2: .jar files are archives] > Eiter ways, even both together, sound fine to me. The former > seems a lot simpler to implement (*), but if you are > volunteering to implement the second... Well, #2 seems a bit cleaner to me, especially... >

Re: Archives and/or Java

2003-02-20 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
Sorry for the delay. >>> "Simon" == Simon Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] Simon> The question is basically: Should jar files be treated Simon> as libraries, losing the ability to stuff application Simon> data into them, or should they be treated as Simon> to-be-implemented archives

Re: Building application on Mac OS X with automake

2003-02-20 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
>>> "Paul" == Paul F Kunz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Paul> I have an application based on Qt that I build with automake on Paul> Linux and other UNIX platforms. Now I'm attempting to build it on Paul> Mac OS X. After I upgrade to libtool 1.4.3, I can build the Paul> application, even with

Re: Stupid problem: how to specify the directory for .h files?

2003-02-20 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
>>> "JG" == Jean-Guillaume Paradis (LMC) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] JG> dsiSecManager_SOURCES = file1.cpp $(PROJECT_ROOT_DIR)/include/file1.h BTW, Automake doesn't support variables as *part of* filenames. This break the dependency tracking code. So, I you ever want to do this, it shoul

Re: aclocal: adding user-home parts to aclocal(/automake) ?

2003-02-20 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
Hi Guido! >>> "gd" == Guido Draheim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] gd> there is no way that a path can be added - the aclocal 1.7 gd> does read $datadir/aclocal/dirlist but that one is a gd> sysadmin file as well, not a user-home related file. One workaround is to install aclocal in you

Re: How to create static library with sources from multiple dirs?

2003-02-20 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
>>> "Bob" == Bob Rossi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] Bob> I would like to create 1 library even though the sources are spread out Bob> over 3 directories. I can only seem to come up with 2 undesirable solutions. Bob> 1. Put all the code in one directory and make 1 library. Bob> 2. Create

Re: tests under automake-1.7.2 fail (AFS @sys variable)

2003-02-20 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
>>> "Martin" == Martin MOKREJ© <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] Martin> Unfortunately, I cannot find out where is the logfile of the test Martin> executions to inspect details. The documentation on this is very bad: Martin> http://www.gnu.org/manual/automake/html_mono/automake.html#SEC96 , so

Re: yacc/lex dependency order

2003-02-20 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
>>> "mcmahill" == mcmahill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] mcmahill> The problem I'm having is that the lex source mcmahill> includes a header generated by yacc but the automake mcmahill> generated makefile doesn't capture that dependency. The 1.7.3 documentation has a paragraph about this

Automake 1.7.3 released

2003-02-20 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
We're pleased to announce the release of Automake 1.7.3 This is a bug fix release. The list of bug fixes is appended. You can find the new release here: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.7.3.tar.bz2 ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.7.3.tar.gz ftp://sources.redhat.com

Re: Automake and no-gzip-dist

2003-02-20 Thread Akim Demaille
Olaf> Hello automake team, Olaf> I'm using Olaf> AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign 1.5 no-define dist-bzip2]) Olaf> which will create a tar.gz and tar.bz2 dist. How can I prevend Olaf> automake from building the tar.gz dist, since there isn't a Olaf> target like no-gzip-dist. By submitting a patc