Re: Variable substitution @libexecdir@

2005-02-08 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hi! [BTW, this would be more appropriate for the autoconf list.] On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 01:59:56PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > @sed \ > -e 's,@@perlmoduledir@@,$(libexecdir)/perl,' \ ... >bindir = ${exec_prefix}/bin >libexecdir = ${exec_prefix}/lib/${PACKAGE} > > Ca

Re: Use of really long lines in Makefile.in

2005-02-08 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hi, On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 11:49:40PM +0100, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: > [...] I was really leery of changing the layout of the variables > defined by the user. Normally Automake tries to output definitions > as it reads them. I like your attitude. > Maybe Automake could do that if the varia

Re: Use of really long lines in Makefile.in

2005-02-08 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
>>> "J" == J T Conklin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: J> Albert Chin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> So, should automake change lines like: >> foo_SOURCES = [long list of sources] >> to the following in Makefile.in: >> foo_SOURCES = $(foo_SOURCES_1) $(foo_SOURCES_2) ... >> foo_SOURCES_1 = [list

Re: "include $(top_builddir)/aminclude.am" is ignored by automake

2005-02-08 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
>>> "Tom" == Tom Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] Tom> Dang. The AC_CONFIG_FILES technique is much nicer (less Tom> files to change). Are there some bad side effects of Tom> using Tom> touch fragment.mk && autoreconf Tom> that I'm not aware of? It's bad to overwrite a file that

Variable substitution @libexecdir@

2005-02-08 Thread Bill Moseley
Sorry, it's been a while since I looked at how this project is being packaged. ;) I have a few Makefile.am that include sections like this: DirTree.pl: DirTree.pl.in @rm -f spider.pl @sed \ -e 's,@@perlmoduledir@@,$(libexecdir)/perl,' \ -e 's,@@swis

Conditional install of files and warning in make dist

2005-02-08 Thread Bill Moseley
I've got a project that includes docs in perldoc format. Those .pod files are in cvs with the project. We also generate an html version of the docs, but those html files are not part of the project in cvs. There's external tools to generate the html docs. The idea is before we roll a tarball w

Re: "include $(top_builddir)/aminclude.am" is ignored by automake

2005-02-08 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
>>> "Stepan" == Stepan Kasal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] Stepan> 1) I noticed typos; see the patch attached. Stepan> 2) Regarding the sentence: [...] Thanks. I installed the following on HEAD, and the Options chunk on branch-1-9. 2005-02-08 Stepan Kasal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * d

Re: check-news option

2005-02-08 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
>>> "Patrick" == Patrick PĂ©lissier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Patrick> It is not enough for my NEWS file. I have a copyright Patrick> license (GNU LGPL) before: For ChangeLog, NEWS, and other files where text is added at the top, the GNU Coding Standards say to put the license notice at the en

check-news option

2005-02-08 Thread Patrick PĂ©lissier
It is said at http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/Options.html#Options: check-news Cause make dist to fail unless the current version number appears in the first few lines of the NEWS file. The problem is that it checks only in the first 15 lines: distdir: $(DISTFILES)