Re: [patch] restore original spacing width for verbose mode

2009-05-01 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Fri, 1 May 2009, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Here's a reason against moving the CC and the object file farther apart: with several languages, lots of sources, CC foo.o FC bar.o CC baz.o it is less easy to see at a glance which compiler corresponds to which object file, the furth

Re: Dependencies for texinfo

2009-05-01 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello John, thanks for the report. * John Darrington wrote on Fri, May 01, 2009 at 01:58:30AM CEST: > Sometimes an info file actually depends on more than one .texi > file. For instance, in GNU Hello, hello.texi includes the file > gpl.texi. You can tell Automake about these dependencies using

Re: [patch] restore original spacing width for verbose mode

2009-05-01 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Jan, * Jan Engelhardt wrote on Fri, May 01, 2009 at 06:46:42PM CEST: > On Friday 2009-05-01 09:57, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > >* Jan Engelhardt wrote on Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 09:05:07PM CEST: > >> Output seems crushed, so restore the original behavior. > > > >Can you explain this, please? > >

Re: [patch] restore original spacing width for verbose mode

2009-05-01 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Friday 2009-05-01 09:57, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: >Hi Jan, > >* Jan Engelhardt wrote on Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 09:05:07PM CEST: >> Output seems crushed, so restore the original behavior. > >Can you explain this, please? The original submission I did around October 2008 followed the Linux-style ou

Re: Setting output dir for support files

2009-05-01 Thread John Calcote
Hi Robert, On 4/30/2009 11:07 PM, Robert J. Hansen wrote: I've used Autotools in a few small projects before, but nothing which required auxiliary files to support the binaries. Typically, I've seen these auxiliary files stored in /usr/share/package-version/, and would like to do the same thing

Re: Setting output dir for support files

2009-05-01 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Robert, * Robert J. Hansen wrote on Fri, May 01, 2009 at 07:07:02AM CEST: > I've used Autotools in a few small projects before, but nothing which > required auxiliary files to support the binaries. Typically, I've seen > these auxiliary files stored in /usr/share/package-version/, and would

Re: Error descriptions

2009-05-01 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello kababu, * novice 123 wrote on Fri, May 01, 2009 at 09:46:40AM CEST: > I am trying to build archives using automake. > However, after configuring ,and while executing "make" , > I am encountering the following error. > > ": error: macro names must be identifiers" The error message

Re: [patch] restore original spacing width for verbose mode

2009-05-01 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Jan, * Jan Engelhardt wrote on Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 09:05:07PM CEST: > Output seems crushed, so restore the original behavior. Can you explain this, please? Also, can you please use automake-patches for patches? Thanks, Ralf > --- automake.orig/automake.in > +++ automake/automake.in > @@ -11

Error descriptions

2009-05-01 Thread novice 123
Hi , I am trying to build archives using automake. However, after configuring ,and while executing "make" , I am encountering the following error. ": error: macro names must be identifiers" Can anybody explain me what this means. Thanks in advance kababu