Re: problem with make distcheck

2008-12-12 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Supply any needed arguments via DISTCHECK_CONFIG_FLAGS. Typo? That would be DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS. Ahhh, it is working due to this in my Makefile.am: DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS=$(DISTCHECK_CONFIG_FLAGS) The loop is now closed. :-) Bob ==

Re: problem with make distcheck

2008-12-12 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Bob, Lorenzo, * Bob Friesenhahn wrote on Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 07:14:36PM CET: > On Fri, 12 Dec 2008, Lorenzo Bettini wrote: >> for a new project with autotools I'm using libraries not in standard >> directories; at configure time I pass the right arguments, but when I >> run >> >> make distc

Re: problem with make distcheck

2008-12-12 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008, Lorenzo Bettini wrote: for a new project with autotools I'm using libraries not in standard directories; at configure time I pass the right arguments, but when I run make distchek it all fails: how can I pass arguments in this case? Supply any needed arguments via DISTCH

problem with make distcheck

2008-12-12 Thread Lorenzo Bettini
Hi for a new project with autotools I'm using libraries not in standard directories; at configure time I pass the right arguments, but when I run make distchek it all fails: how can I pass arguments in this case? thanks in advance Lorenzo -- Lorenzo Bettini, PhD in Computer Science,

Re: GNU Make Extensions

2008-12-12 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008, NightStrike wrote: I thought this only occurred when "maintainer mode" was turned on, and that releases should be made with that turned off. Is that not how it works? Maintainer mode is optional. Regardless, when using wildcards the maintainer (i.e. you) will become fru

Re: GNU Make Extensions

2008-12-12 Thread NightStrike
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Thu, 11 Dec 2008, Duft Markus wrote: >>> >>> There is a philosophical stance that the software we develop is >>> intended for the software users rather than the software developer. >>> There is a problem if build behavior is different f