Re: Test support for automake

2011-02-13 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* NightStrike wrote on Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 02:10:32PM CET: > On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 4:51 PM, Daily, Jeff A wrote: > >> I have a non-recursive Makefile.am with which I build a library foo. I > >> list all my tests (quite a lot) in check_PROGRAMS. > >> > >> All those tests should (of course) get li

Re: turning off dependency tracking when building fat binaries on Mac OSX

2011-02-13 Thread Peter Johansson
Hi Ralf, On 2/13/11 3:32 AM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Yep. I think that was one reason we explicitly documented the thing in INSTALL. With this configuration, your preprocessor will be wrong (because CFLAGS are not passed to it) which means macro values may be computed wrongly. I'm not sure I u

bug#8031: feature request: slow "make clean"

2011-02-13 Thread Ralf Hemmecke
This is a copy of http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2011-02/msg00017.html It's not really a bug, but rather a feature request. Ralf Original Message Subject: slow "make clean" Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2011 23:46:55 +0100 From: Ralf Hemmecke To: automake@gnu.org I've a proje

Re: slow "make clean"

2011-02-13 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sun, 13 Feb 2011, Ralf Hemmecke wrote: I think I would get too many (to me irrelevant) mails if I subscribe to the bug-automake mailing list. That is true, but you don't need to subcribe to the list in order to post to it and it is normal to be Cc:ed on any response. A list moderator mi

Re: Test support for automake

2011-02-13 Thread NightStrike
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 4:51 PM, Daily, Jeff A wrote: >> From: automake-bounces+jeff.daily=pnl@gnu.org >> [automake-bounces+jeff.daily=pnl@gnu.org] On Behalf Of Ralf Hemmecke >> [hemme...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 11:18 AM >> To: automake@gnu.org >> Subject: Test supp

Re: support for a program that compile files (like yacc or lex support)

2011-02-13 Thread Vincent Torri
ping 3 :) On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Vincent Torri wrote: > > ping2 :) > > Vincent Torri > > On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 8:24 AM, Vincent Torri wrote: > >> >> Hey, >> >> Wasn't what i want (see below) clear enough ? >> >> Vincent Torri >> >> First, it seems that i have deleted your answers wh

Re: debbugs and (was: slow "make clean")

2011-02-13 Thread Glenn Morris
Ralf Wildenhues wrote (on Sun, 13 Feb 2011 at 19:01 +0100): > I glanced over the debbugs documentation at debbugs.gnu.org now, but > couldn't find a place that said something about subscribing to > individual bugs. Glen, do you happen to know more about this? I know that it doesn't work, and pe

Re: $(srcdir)/foo is not generated because $(srcdir)/$(srcdir)/foo exists

2011-02-13 Thread Peter Johansson
Thanks Ralf for your quick reply, On 2/13/11 2:44 AM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: I would prepend all lines of a rule with a TAB, not just those not following a backslash-escaped newline. I'm actually not totally sure whether that was for portability to non-Posix make or so automake would parse thin

debbugs, and a FAQ, for Autotools

2011-02-13 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
[ Cross post; Reply-To and Mail-Followup-To set. Please followup to the automake list only, to avoid excessive spammage. Thank you. ] Hello everyone, I've been advertising debbugs before, I think we should be a good example. So, two proposals: 1) Autoconf and Libtool should also use debbug

debbugs and (was: slow "make clean")

2011-02-13 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Ralf Hemmecke wrote on Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 06:46:12PM CET: > >We have a bug tracker. Just write to the bug-automake list. > >This is documented at > >http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/Reporting-Bugs.html > > Oh yes, but it's not completely clear to me whether I get only an

Re: slow "make clean"

2011-02-13 Thread Ralf Hemmecke
We have a bug tracker. Just write to the bug-automake list. This is documented at http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/Reporting-Bugs.html Oh yes, but it's not completely clear to me whether I get only an email for a bug that I submitted or whether I can explicitly can subscri

Re: slow "make clean"

2011-02-13 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Ralf Hemmecke wrote on Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 03:10:39PM CET: > >You mean, as a workaround until Automake is improved? You could > >overwrite the rule in your Makefile.am: > > > >mostlyclean-compile: > > -find . -name \*.lo -o -name \*.$(OBJEXT) -print | xargs rm -f > > > >But note that automa

Re: slow "make clean"

2011-02-13 Thread Ralf Hemmecke
You mean, as a workaround until Automake is improved? You could overwrite the rule in your Makefile.am: mostlyclean-compile: -find . -name \*.lo -o -name \*.$(OBJEXT) -print | xargs rm -f But note that automake may generate other files that would need to be mostlyclean'ed too, so the ab

Re: turning off dependency tracking when building fat binaries on Mac OSX

2011-02-13 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Peter, * Peter Johansson wrote on Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 05:18:10PM CET: > The `INSTALL' file provided by autotools has the following blurp > > > On MacOS X 10.5 and later systems, you can create libraries and > >executables that work on multiple system types--known as "fat" or > >"universa