autotools novice: porting existing code to autotools

2004-03-10 Thread Claudio Fontana
Hello, I just moved to the autotools and I'm facing a problem I cannot deal with; I've searched the autoconf and automake manuals but in vain. I've got some existing code to port to the autotools system. The code should be divided into three packages and a fourth should consist of the sum of the o

GNU Automake 1.8.3 released

2004-03-10 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
We're pleased to announce the release of Automake 1.8.3. This is a bug fix release. The list of bug fixes is appended below. You can find the new release here: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.8.3.tar.gz ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.8.3.tar.gz.sig ftp://ftp.gnu

Re: FEATURE REQUEST: make uninstall should delete empty directories.

2004-03-10 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, Andrew Suffield wrote: > > Thus, if I'm right that Automake doesn't know which directories > > the package owns, it should should err on the side of caution: it > > should *not* try to delete any empty directories at uninstall > > time. Neither should Automake try to guess --

Re: Building the .info files in build directory.

2004-03-10 Thread Thien-Thi Nguyen
Kelley Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Sorry if this is a RTFM, but I can't find it. The release notes for automake 1.8, mention that it changes the defaults to go back to building the .info files in the source directory since that is the GNU coding standards. What do I have to p

Re: [Fwd: Can nobase_pkgdata_DATA take directories? Does not seam so.]

2004-03-10 Thread Jirka Hanika
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 09:24:21AM -0500, Hans Deragon wrote: > Mmm... Posted this message two days ago but have yet to receive any > answer. Not too long a time, I'd think. > I believe my question is pretty basic, so anybody care to give me > an answer? Surely someone with years of experien

Re: Building the .info files in build directory.

2004-03-10 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, [Info files being built in source dir] > FWIW, having a read only source directory is our goal. When the source dir is readonly, noone can change the texinfo files. If noone can change the texinfo files, there is no need to rebuild the info files, so it doesn't matter that they're in a reado