Writing a rule

Hi there, I'm still trying to write my Automakefile… I'm stuck in adding a few extra dependencies to my target. What I have is: do_subst = sed \ -e 's,[@]RSCRIPT[@],$(CRB_RSCRIPT),g' \ -e 's,[@]configure_input[@],Generated from $@.R; do not edit by hand.,g' .R: rm -f $@ .$@.tmp

bug#10226: Drop redundant Python 1.5 support?

severity 10226 minor thanks Hi Reuben. On Monday 05 December 2011, Reuben Thomas wrote: > Reading python.m4, I notice that it claims to support only Python >= > 2.0, yet still has specific support for Python 1.5. Would a patch > along the following lines therefore be accepted? (If so I'll write t

Re: [RFC] Releasing automake 1.11.2

Hi Jim. On Wednesday 07 December 2011, Jim Meyering wrote: > > Using HACKING as your guide appears to be the right thing, > but I can't be as reassuring as Ralf, since I've never made > an automake release. > Let's give him some time to chime in then; better safe than sorry. Thanks, Stefano

Re: Calculating Perl module installation directory

On Wednesday 07 December 2011, Adam Spiers wrote: > On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 4:54 PM, Stefano Lattarini > > [SNIP] > > >> Awesome! ... but $pmdir_relative_path doesn't get expanded inside the > >> help string. > >> > > This sounds strange... can you copy and past the output from the help > > screen?

bug#10237: AM_SILENT_RULES does not work with NonStop make

On 12/07/2011 01:54 PM, Roumen Petrov wrote: >> Exactly. Hence the proposal for a configure-time check, which expands >> to the extension where the extension was tested to work, and which >> expands to an innocuous variant that avoids nested variables where the >> test fails. >> > > I remembe

Re: Calculating Perl module installation directory

On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 4:54 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > On Wednesday 07 December 2011, Adam Spiers wrote: >> On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 7:16 PM, Stefano Lattarini >> >> [SNIP] >> >> > Warning: the ${var#pattern} substitution is unfortunately unportable to >> > Bourne shells that lack full POSIX com

bug#10237: AM_SILENT_RULES does not work with NonStop make

Eric Blake wrote: On 12/06/2011 08:20 PM, Daniel Richard G. wrote: I wanted a solution that worked on any POSIX platform -- POSIX 2008 says that $(aaa${bbb}) is just as unspecified as $(aaa$(bbb)) is, and I wanted to play it safe. As I see it, the only real way to play it safe here

Re: [RFC] Releasing automake 1.11.2

Stefano Lattarini wrote: > References: > > > > At this point I think we are ready to release a beta version of 1.11.2, > and then ask for help on platform-testers to smoke out

Re: [RFC] Releasing automake 1.11.2

References: At this point I think we are ready to release a beta version of 1.11.2, and then ask for help on platform-testers to smoke out some more bugs on "exotic" platforms

bug#10157: broken links at http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/

On Wednesday 07 December 2011, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > On Tuesday 06 December 2011, Adam Spiers wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 11:11 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > > >> Adam Spiers wrote: > > >> If you attached the new HTML I could probably have a quick look > > >> in my browser. > > >> > > >

bug#10157: broken links at http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/

On Tuesday 06 December 2011, Adam Spiers wrote: > On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 11:11 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > >> Adam Spiers wrote: > >> If you attached the new HTML I could probably have a quick look > >> in my browser. > >> > > But since you volunteer ;-) ... here it is. > > FWIW, looks good to

Re: Calculating Perl module installation directory

On Wednesday 07 December 2011, Adam Spiers wrote: > On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 7:16 PM, Stefano Lattarini > > [SNIP] > > > Warning: the ${var#pattern} substitution is unfortunately unportable to > > Bourne shells that lack full POSIX compliance, such as Solaris 10 /bin/sh > > (and I guess many other ve