Re: 1.16.90 regression: configure now takes 7 seconds to start

At some point, it becomes unreasonable to burden common platforms with delays that only support relatively obscure and obsolete platforms. Configure scripts already have a bad reputation for wasting time. Even if they are faster than editing a custom makefile, they are idle instead of active

Re: GNU Coding Standards, automake, and the recent xz-utils backdoor

On 2024-03-30 18:25, Bruno Haible wrote: Eric Gallager wrote: Hm, so should automake's `distcheck` target be updated to perform these checks as well, then? The first mentioned check can not be automated. ... The second mentioned check could be done by the maintainer, ... I agree that dist

Re: Directions on compiling the right files

> In other words, there will be new .c files that should be compiled > only > for the windows version and some .c files exclusive to the linux version. > Suppose also I want to specify this at configure-time (e.g. > "./configure" builds linux, "./configure --enable-win32" builds windows). >

Re: Manual merges.

On Fri, 21 Oct 2011, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Fri, 21 Oct 2011, Stefano Lattarini wrote: >>> >>> Should I perhaps file a bug that the ChangeLog file should be >>> generated? >>> >> That would be a good idea in the long(ish) term. In fact, I pesonally >> see >> ChangeLogs as a relic of the pre-V

RE: install to top_builddir

Jeff Daily wrote: >> > * Reuben Hawkins wrote on Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 05:51:52AM CEST: >> > > In my build process, I need to have all the libraries copied to >> > > $(top_builddir)/lib and all the bins to $(top_builddir)/bin and >> > > headers, > I ran into a similar issue with projects I converted

Re: tracking dependencies of built sources

Never mind. Sometimes it is bad to work late at night. I had convinced myself the following did not work. For the record, here's the fixed makefile On Tue, 31 Mar 2009, dherr...@ll.mit.edu wrote: I'm using Qt 4's moc to generate source files in an autotools project. The pattern looks somet

tracking dependencies of built sources

Hi all, I'm using Qt 4's moc to generate source files in an autotools project. The pattern looks something like cat <<_EOF > Makefile.am # Makefile fragment bin_PROGRAMS=test test_SOURCES=a.cpp b.cpp test_META=a.hpp b.hpp test_SOURCES+=$(test_META) test_LDADD = $(test_META:%.hpp=%_moc.$(OBJEXT)