Re: Automake feature request

2005-03-10 Thread Ben Elliston
Hi Ralf Either use make -s LIBTOOLFLAGS=--silent or configure LIBTOOLFLAGS=--silent or some nice hack to enable this automatically in configure.ac mentioned in the discussion at that time[1]. Thanks. That's probably good enough. Cheers, Ben signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signatur

Automake feature request

2005-03-09 Thread Ben Elliston
I approached the Libtool maintainers with this request, who convinced me that Automake was the right place to implement this. I would like Automake-generated Makefiles to pass --quiet to libtool when make is invoked with -s. At present, even when compiling with make -s, libtool echoes the commands

Re: ChangeLogs included in dist

2004-02-16 Thread Ben Elliston
Bruce Korb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Then make it optional, please. Distributions already get too much > bloat. The distributed tarball ought not have a change log that > goes past the last previous major release. If someone is interested > in more history than that, well, that is what CVS

ChangeLogs included in dist

2004-02-06 Thread Ben Elliston
Automake will currently include a file called "ChangeLog" in the distribution. Many large projects use a scheme of appending a number to ChangeLogs when the files are rotated. For example, GCC uses: ChangeLog ChangeLog.0 ... ChangeLog.10 Can I suggest that the list of matched files be e

Re: config.sub, config.guess, and the GNU FTP site

2003-09-05 Thread Ben Elliston
> In another message, John Eaton seems to imply that there's already a > "config" Savannah project that contains these files in CVS. In > fact, I can find it there now that I know about it :). Yes, that's correct. Ben

config.* files via FTP

2000-02-29 Thread Ben Elliston
These files are now checked out and placed in: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/config/ You can use this as a means of getting the latest versions if you'd rather not bother with anonymous CVS. Ben