Re: Please, please fix the subdir-objects out-of-tree bug

2015-12-02 Thread Alex Vong
On 01/12/2015, Thomas Martitz wrote: > Am 01.12.2015 um 13:44 schrieb R. Diez: >> Hi Automake devs: >> >> I need to build some files outside of the build repository, and I >> cannot use option 'subdir-objects' because of an Automake bug, so I >> constantly get many warnings like this with newer Au

[PATCH] missing: add autoreconf, autogen and perl as supported programs

2015-07-26 Thread Alex Vong
il. This patch can be apply by `git am *.patch' (tested). GIT: From: Alex Vong Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2015 23:10:28 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] missing: add autoreconf, autogen and perl as supported programs autoreconf, autogen and perl are added as supported programs since they are commonly used wit

Re: Turn off C compiler warnings in automake

2015-06-30 Thread Alex Vong
於 二,2015-06-30 於 09:37 +0200,Thomas Jahns 提到: > On 06/29/15 17:31, Alex Vong wrote: > > Thanks for telling me there is no portable flag for doing so. > > I am now using AC_SUBST() to set the value of STREAM and append ` > > $(STREAM)>/dev/null' to every make comman

Re: Turn off C compiler warnings in automake

2015-06-29 Thread Alex Vong
於 一,2015-06-29 於 10:00 +0200,Thomas Jahns 提到: > Hi Alex, > > On 06/28/15 16:21, Alex Vong wrote: > > Besides, the code base is quite old and as we know compilers always > > add new warnings. I have asked upstream about fixing the warnings, but > > it seems there is no

Re: Re: Turn off C compiler warnings in automake

2015-06-28 Thread Alex Vong
Hi Thomas, Sorry I forget to subscript to the mailing list so I cannot reply, but now I can. May be I should clarify why I want to silent those warnings. Actually, I am working on packaging a GPLed software for a distro. (I am new in both packaging and autotools.) The software does not use a Make

Turn off C compiler warnings in automake

2015-06-22 Thread Alex Vong
Hi everyone, Is there a portable way to silent C compiler warnings in automake? I think of 2 ways of doing it but both ways have serious limitations. 1. hand-craft automake rules with `2>/dev/null' appended on the command limitation: tedious, defeat the purpose of using automake (not _auto_ enoug