Automake 1.9.6 released

2005-07-10 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
I'm pleased to announce the release of Automake 1.9.6. This is a bug-fix release, the list of bugs fixed is appended. You can find the new release here: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.9.6.tar.gz ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.9.6.tar.gz.sig ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu

Re: [Fwd: [PATCH] sharutils' autoconfigury]

2005-07-10 Thread Bruce Korb
On Sunday 10 July 2005 10:32 am, you wrote: > Hello, Hi again :) > I'm not sure I understand. The file doesn't have to exist, it only has > to be listed as a distributed file in Makefile.am. > It should be enough to get the rule in Makefile.in. Wrong. Sorry :-( > + automake --gnu --add-missin

Re: I: adjust test suite for upcoming GNU Make 3.83

2005-07-10 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
>>> "adl" == Alexandre Duret-Lutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] pds> I don't know whether automake currently works correctly pds> for Java with any other version of make, but this would pds> definitely cause that not to be the case going forward. adl> I believe $-filenames works only wit

Re: I: adjust test suite for upcoming GNU Make 3.83

2005-07-10 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hi, On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 12:19:03PM -0400, Paul D. Smith wrote: > The other alternative is to do away with backward compatibility and just > say that as of release automake XXX you need GNU make 3.81 if your > makefiles have $ in the names. that sounds reasonable. Perhaps there should be an A

Re: question about test dependencies on libraries in makefile.am

2005-07-10 Thread Ed Hartnett
Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 08:15:08PM CEST: >> * Ed Hartnett wrote on Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 07:28:38PM CEST: > > >> > I have a slew of test programs, and my Makefile.am contains something >> > like this: >> > >> > # These programs

Re: I: adjust test suite for upcoming GNU Make 3.83

2005-07-10 Thread Jirka Hanika
> However, apparently there is no choice but to support them since Java > requires it. It really confuses me how a company like Sun could create > a language that is so difficult to use with standard UNIX tools. If > you're going to invent a language, why not make it easy to work with? I may be

Re: I: adjust test suite for upcoming GNU Make 3.83

2005-07-10 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Alexandre Duret-Lutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: adl> So any solution that require a syntax that is different in adl> prerequisites than it is in the commands seems wrong to me. pds> I definitely agree that this incongruity is disturbing, but pds> that's the way it is. adl> Don't re

Re: I: adjust test suite for upcoming GNU Make 3.83

2005-07-10 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
>>> "pds" == Paul D Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] adl> So any solution that require a syntax that is different in adl> prerequisites than it is in the commands seems wrong to me. pds> I definitely agree that this incongruity is disturbing, but that's the pds> way it is. Don't read

Re: Is nobase_include_HEADERS supposed to precreate directories?

2005-07-10 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
>>> "Ralf" == Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ralf> Hi Jeremy, Ralf> * Jeremy C. Reed wrote on Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 06:58:43PM CEST: >> >> nobase_include_HEADERS = histedit.h editline/readline.h [...] >> Should it also precreate the "editline" subdirectory also? Ralf> If the