Re: Non-recursive automake vs. gettext

2011-02-10 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi John, * John Darrington wrote on Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 07:56:20PM CET: > I like to use a non-recursive makefile structure for my projects. > However, if the project also uses gettext, I end up having to > constantly fight against both gettext and auto{conf,make}. > > If AM_GNU_GETTEXT appears i

Re: portable way to normalize whitespace?

2011-02-10 Thread Eric Blake
On 02/09/2011 11:44 AM, Daily, Jeff A wrote: > I'm aware of GNU make's text processing functions. Specifically, I'm looking > for the $(strip string) functionality, but hopefully portable. Is this > functionality available portably? Thanks. Portably within make, no. As a shell sub-process, y

Non-recursive automake vs. gettext

2011-02-10 Thread John Darrington
Hi Ralf and others, I like to use a non-recursive makefile structure for my projects. However, if the project also uses gettext, I end up having to constantly fight against both gettext and auto{conf,make}. If AM_GNU_GETTEXT appears in the configure.ac file, then automake refuses to run, but g

portable way to normalize whitespace?

2011-02-10 Thread Daily, Jeff A
I'm aware of GNU make's text processing functions. Specifically, I'm looking for the $(strip string) functionality, but hopefully portable. Is this functionality available portably? Thanks.