automake 1.6 on solaris

2002-12-18 Thread Thomas Vander Stichele
Hello, I'm trying to get GStreamer to autogen properly on Solaris, but automake fails. I get a lot these warnings: configure.ac:425: invalid unused variable name: `GST_PLUGIN_LDFLAGS' And using -v I see that these are caused by a bunch of Makefile.am files where that variable indeed is not us

Re: how to override AUTOMAKE = ... in Makefile

2002-05-30 Thread Thomas Vander Stichele
Hey Richard, > This appears to work correctly with automake 1.6.1a (current CVS 1.6 > branch). (and autoconf 2.53, if that's relevant). I'm not sure when the > fix went in. > > > I would like to know what is the best way to override this so that it also > > uses automake-1.5. > > > > Any sugg

how to override AUTOMAKE = ... in Makefile

2002-05-27 Thread Thomas Vander Stichele
Hi, I work on GStreamer and it's build infrastructure. GStreamer requires automake 1.5 because we use per-target flags. Now that Red Hat 7.3 has an automake-1.5 binary and a regular automake binary, I provided options to autogen.sh to specify a different automake binary. It does this perfect

a question re: variable expansion

2002-03-28 Thread Thomas Vander Stichele
I hope it's ok to ask here, since i'm not sure if this is an autoconf or automake issue. I have an AUTHORS file, and I pull it in in configure.in like this : AUTHORS=`cat AUTHORS` AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(AUTHORS, "$AUTHORS") AC_SUBST(AUTHORS) When AUTHORS is more than one line, of course this doe

Re: a few questions

2002-02-09 Thread Thomas Vander Stichele
Hi, Thanks for your reply... > Thomas> So we started shipping .m4 files from these libraries > Thomas> in a separate m4 directory. > > ... and whenever you make a new release you will have to make > sure those fallback macros have not been used accidentally? Well, it's easy to see that they'

a few questions

2002-02-07 Thread Thomas Vander Stichele
Hi, I've recently gotten more involved with autoconf and automake because I cleaned up build issues for GStreamer, a multimedia framework. I'm rather new to autotools so I probably make a lot of mistakes along the way. Anyway, I first have some questions on "the right thing to do". First of