Re: Python macros

2012-09-23 Thread Paul Eggert
My kneejerk reaction is that Python would be a good language for Autoconf to deal with. The hard part would probably be writing the documentation -- is that something you could do? The idea would be to come up with a patch to the Autoconf sources.

bug#12495: AC_CONFIG_HEADERS with

2012-09-23 Thread Hib Eris
Hi, With AC_CONFIG_HEADERS(config.h subdir/myconfig.h) in configure.ac, automake generates a target to build config.h.in with autoheader in Makefile.in (as expected), but it also generates a target in subdir/Makefile.in to build subdir/myconfig.h.in which also runs autoheader. This last target doe

Python macros

2012-09-23 Thread Brandon Invergo
Hi everyone, Sorry for the cross-posting here but it touches both Autoconf and Automake in some way... I recently worked to implement a standard configure/Makefile.in file pair for Python-based GNU projects. In the process, I implemented a large number of Autoconf macros. Well, in fact, a lot were

Re: Static library naming

2012-09-23 Thread Peter Rosin
Hi Stefano! Thanks for your input! On 2012-09-20 16:36, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > Adding the Automake-NG list in CC: (see below for the motivation). > > On 09/20/2012 12:49 AM, Peter Rosin wrote: >> Hi! >> > Hi Peter. > >> When you write >> >> lib_LIBRARIES = libhello.a >> >> you express the d