Re: debbugs, and a FAQ, for Autotools

2011-02-23 Thread Miles Bader
Ralf Hemmecke writes: > Is there actually a good reason, why the autotools are distributed as > separate packages (autoconf, automake, libtool, m4)? (Maybe even > pkg-config, but I still don't yet know exactly whether it is good for > me.) Hmm, why not? Isn't it good general practice to split up

Re: debbugs, and a FAQ, for Autotools

2011-02-23 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Eric Blake wrote on Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 01:04:31AM CET: > On 02/23/2011 05:02 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote: > > The question "libtool reorders link fags" seems to have a > > spelling error in the last word. It's not obvious to me what > > word is meant. > > flags Fixed now, thanks for the report. Ralf

Re: debbugs, and a FAQ, for Autotools

2011-02-23 Thread Eric Blake
On 02/23/2011 05:02 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote: > The question "libtool reorders link fags" seems to have a > spelling error in the last word. It's not obvious to me what > word is meant. flags -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org si

Re: debbugs, and a FAQ, for Autotools

2011-02-23 Thread Ben Pfaff
The question "libtool reorders link fags" seems to have a spelling error in the last word. It's not obvious to me what word is meant. -- Ben Pfaff http://benpfaff.org

Re: debbugs, and a FAQ, for Autotools

2011-02-23 Thread Ralf Hemmecke
Sure. But it is also relevant if one developer adds a macro which is only available in some recent version of automake, say. Another developer might not yet have that automake version. It doesn't really seem any worse than _any_ potential tool incompatibility problem -- compiler version, library

Re: debbugs, and a FAQ, for Autotools

2011-02-23 Thread Paul Smith
On Wed, 2011-02-23 at 13:17 +0900, Miles Bader wrote: > Ralf Hemmecke writes: > > Sure. But it is also relevant if one developer adds a macro which is > > only available in some recent version of automake, say. Another > > developer might not yet have that automake version. > > It doesn't really

Re: debbugs, and a FAQ, for Autotools

2011-02-23 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello, * Miles Bader wrote on Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 05:17:29AM CET: > Ralf Hemmecke writes: > > Sure. But it is also relevant if one developer adds a macro which is > > only available in some recent version of automake, say. Another > > developer might not yet have that automake version. > > It do

Re: debbugs, and a FAQ, for Autotools

2011-02-23 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Ralf, * Ralf Hemmecke wrote on Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 10:30:21PM CET: > I'm just reading the current FAQ under > > 1.3 Where can I get the latest versions of these tools? > > http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/faq/autotools-faq.html#Where-can-I-get-the-latest-versions-of-these-tools_003f >