Re: GNU Automake 1.12.5 released

2012-11-17 Thread Richard Stallman
Congratulations on the new release. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call

Re: NASM/YASM support

2012-11-17 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On 17/11/2012 16:08, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > I know basically nothing about assembly, and this is just a quick reply > before bedtime, but... would this help? Not really. The problem with that, is that it's designed to support gas-style assembly (i.e. using the GCC frontend to compile the asse

Re: NASM/YASM support

2012-11-17 Thread Stefano Lattarini
Hi Luca. On 11/17/2012 08:28 PM, Luca Barbato wrote: > Hi, VLC is considering adding some nasm/yasm assembly in its codebase > and that would require adding support to it in their autotools build > system. How likely would be to add support for such assembler directly > in automake? > I know basic

NASM/YASM support

2012-11-17 Thread Luca Barbato
Hi, VLC is considering adding some nasm/yasm assembly in its codebase and that would require adding support to it in their autotools build system. How likely would be to add support for such assembler directly in automake?

GNU Automake 1.12.5 released

2012-11-17 Thread Stefano Lattarini
We are pleased to announce the Automake 1.12.5 maintenance release. This release fixes a couple of minor bugs: one related to the use of Microsoft tools for compiling and linking, the other related to spurious remake rules being generated in some cases by the AC_CONFIG_HEADERS macro. Support for

How Do Parallel Builds Scale?

2012-11-17 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
I suspect that this anaysis has been mentioned on the Automake list before but (if so) it is worth looking at again. It seems that few packages benefit significantly from parallel builds. Many packages use Automake, but they use it in a very inefficient way. Here is a web page which shows th

Re: looking for a good example of non-recursive Make using project

2012-11-17 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sat, 17 Nov 2012, Václav Zeman wrote: Hi. I am looking for a good example of a project with non-recursive Make that is using Automake, that is not trivial. I would like to convert my project, log4cplus, to non-recursive Make style, if it is possible. Any recommendations? I am not sure if i

Re: looking for a good example of non-recursive Make using project

2012-11-17 Thread Václav Zeman
On 11/17/2012 11:36 AM, Vincent Torri wrote: > On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Václav Zeman wrote: >> Hi. >> >> I am looking for a good example of a project with non-recursive Make >> that is using Automake, that is not trivial. I would like to convert my >> project, log4cplus, to non-recursive

Re: Several pass for a simple test in make check

2012-11-17 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 11/17/2012 11:26 AM, Alexis Praga wrote: >> >> A band-aid solution is to have a test script automatically generated for >> each >> configuration you have to support. This might also offer better >> performances >> with concurrent make (and if your per-configuration tests are not fast, >> this

Re: Splitting "make check" into separate build and run targets

2012-11-17 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 11/16/2012 08:38 AM, Björn Stenberg wrote: > Stefano Lattarini wrote: >> Couldn't you simply add a 'buil-tests' target that creates >> all the programs in $(TESTS)? Something as simple as: >> >> build-tests: $(TESTS) >> >> Then run it on the build system, before running "make check" on >> t

Re: looking for a good example of non-recursive Make using project

2012-11-17 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 11/17/2012 11:13 AM, Václav Zeman wrote: > Hi. > > I am looking for a good example of a project with non-recursive Make > that is using Automake, that is not trivial. I would like to convert my > project, log4cplus, to non-recursive Make style, if it is possible. Any > recommendations? > GNU C

Re: looking for a good example of non-recursive Make using project

2012-11-17 Thread Vincent Torri
On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Václav Zeman wrote: > Hi. > > I am looking for a good example of a project with non-recursive Make > that is using Automake, that is not trivial. I would like to convert my > project, log4cplus, to non-recursive Make style, if it is possible. Any > recommendations

Re: Several pass for a simple test in make check

2012-11-17 Thread Alexis Praga
> > A band-aid solution is to have a test script automatically generated for > each > configuration you have to support. This might also offer better > performances > with concurrent make (and if your per-configuration tests are not fast, > this > might indeed become the preferred solution). > I

looking for a good example of non-recursive Make using project

2012-11-17 Thread Václav Zeman
Hi. I am looking for a good example of a project with non-recursive Make that is using Automake, that is not trivial. I would like to convert my project, log4cplus, to non-recursive Make style, if it is possible. Any recommendations? -- VZ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: TAP support documentation

2012-11-17 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 11/16/2012 04:32 PM, Alexis Praga wrote: >> No, it won't work properly, because the old (pre-1.12) Automake testsuite >> harness won't be able to "see" and report the results saved in the *.trs >> files. > > Ok. > > You might correctly see some "FAIL" displayed by the tap-driver.sh >> script,