Re: side stepping automake limitations with custom dependencies

2011-06-23 Thread Nick Bowler
On 2011-06-23 16:25 -0400, Jie Zhang wrote: > > With Posix make Makefiles, it would be doable with some more work, but > > automake doesn't.  With GNU make extensions used in the Makefile.am, it > > is almost impossible without implementing a large set of GNU make > > extension parsing in automake

Re: side stepping automake limitations with custom dependencies

2011-06-23 Thread Jie Zhang
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 4:51 PM, Nick Bowler wrote: > On 2011-06-23 16:25 -0400, Jie Zhang wrote: >> > With Posix make Makefiles, it would be doable with some more work, but >> > automake doesn't.  With GNU make extensions used in the Makefile.am, it >> > is almost impossible without implementing

Re: side stepping automake limitations with custom dependencies

2011-06-23 Thread Jie Zhang
Hi Ralf, On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Hi Jie, > > * Jie Zhang wrote on Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 03:30:43PM CEST: >> On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 1:52 AM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: >> > The only thing that keeps me from setting current behavior in stone is >> > that it is sooo uni

Re: side stepping automake limitations with custom dependencies

2011-06-23 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Jie, * Jie Zhang wrote on Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 03:30:43PM CEST: > On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 1:52 AM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > The only thing that keeps me from setting current behavior in stone is > > that it is sooo unintuitive and ugly. > > > There is another ugly way to achieve the same purp

Re: tar-pax or tar-ustar as a default for automake

2011-06-23 Thread Andrew W. Nosenko
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 16:59, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Thu, 23 Jun 2011, Andrew W. Nosenko wrote: >> >> Hmmm...  What about do not enforce any particular format by default? >> Especially if consider that on my FreeBSD automake already enforses >> ustar when tries to enforce v7 ;-) >> >>   tard

Re: tar-pax or tar-ustar as a default for automake

2011-06-23 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Thu, 23 Jun 2011, Andrew W. Nosenko wrote: Hmmm... What about do not enforce any particular format by default? Especially if consider that on my FreeBSD automake already enforses ustar when tries to enforce v7 ;-) tardir=testprog-0.0.0 && /usr/local/bin/bash /home/user/tmp/testprog/missi

Re: side stepping automake limitations with custom dependencies

2011-06-23 Thread Jie Zhang
Hi Ralf, On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 1:52 AM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Hi Mike, > > * Mike Frysinger wrote on Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 02:08:50AM CEST: >>       http://sources.redhat.com/automake/automake.html#Extending >>       [quote] >>       Note that Automake does not make any distinction between ru

Re: tar-pax or tar-ustar as a default for automake

2011-06-23 Thread Andrew W. Nosenko
2011/6/23 Bob Friesenhahn : > On Wed, 22 Jun 2011, Javier Jardón wrote: >> >> FYI, GNU tar added pax support in 2004 [1] >> Anyway, a change to ustar would be enough for us. Should I file a bug for >> this? > > Filing a bug sounds like a good idea.  The issue is less likely to be > forgotten. > Hm