Re: distcheck: cannot create directory `.am21666': Permission denied

2011-02-03 Thread Bruce Korb
On 02/03/11 12:51, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Hi Bruce, > > * Bruce Korb wrote on Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 09:48:25PM CET: >> P.S. in researching this, I found in my own logs a bunch of these: >>> rm -rf $backupdir; exit $rc >>> mkdir: cannot create directory `.am21666': Permission denied >>> make[3

distcheck: cannot create directory `.am21666': Permission denied (was: creating a report that displays what has been installed)

2011-02-03 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Bruce, * Bruce Korb wrote on Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 09:48:25PM CET: > P.S. in researching this, I found in my own logs a bunch of these: > > rm -rf $backupdir; exit $rc > > mkdir: cannot create directory `.am21666': Permission denied > > make[3]: Leaving directory > > `/old-home/bkorb/ag/ag/

Re: creating a report that displays what has been installed

2011-02-03 Thread Bruce Korb
On 02/03/11 11:46, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Hello Vincent, > > * Vincent Torri wrote on Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 04:32:36PM CET: >> I'm trying to improve the autotools of he openjpeg project. The lead dev >> wants me to display in the terminal what has been installed. >> Is there a smarter way to do

Re: AC_CONFIG_HEADERS

2011-02-03 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Jeff, * Jeff Squyres wrote on Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 04:30:24PM CET: > We recently got bitten by what appears to be undocumented behavior in > AC_CONFIG_HEADERS (meaning that I couldn't find this behavior > described in the docs; I might well have missed it...?). It seems > that AM's version of

Re: creating a report that displays what has been installed

2011-02-03 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Vincent, * Vincent Torri wrote on Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 04:32:36PM CET: > I'm trying to improve the autotools of he openjpeg project. The lead dev > wants me to display in the terminal what has been installed. I tried to > argue that looking at what is already in the terminal is sufficient, h

Re: dashes in Makefile macro names

2011-02-03 Thread Eric Blake
On 01/28/2011 04:38 AM, Bruno Haible wrote: > Hi, > > Can you use $(FOO-BAR) in Makefile? It's not portable in POSIX [1] > "Applications shall select macro names from the set of characters >consisting solely of periods, underscores, digits, and alphabetics >from the portable character se

Re: AC_CONFIG_HEADERS

2011-02-03 Thread Jeff Squyres
On Feb 3, 2011, at 10:30 AM, Jeff Squyres wrote: > And since the value is hard-coded in Makefile.am, ... s/Makefile.am/Makefile.in/ Sorry about that! -- Jeff Squyres jsquy...@cisco.com For corporate legal information go to: http://www.cisco.com/web/about/doing_business/legal/cri/

creating a report that displays what has been installed

2011-02-03 Thread Vincent Torri
Hey, I'm trying to improve the autotools of he openjpeg project. The lead dev wants me to display in the terminal what has been installed. I tried to argue that looking at what is already in the terminal is sufficient, he still prefers to see it at the end of the process. One possible way would b

AC_CONFIG_HEADERS

2011-02-03 Thread Jeff Squyres
Greetings, and thanks for Automake. We recently got bitten by what appears to be undocumented behavior in AC_CONFIG_HEADERS (meaning that I couldn't find this behavior described in the docs; I might well have missed it...?). It seems that AM's version of AC_CONFIG_HEADERS automatically adds a