Re: Patch to aclocal

2003-03-09 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
>>> "Philip" == Philip Willoughby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] Philip> I take your point about moving the functionality into Philip> autoconf being the right thing to do, but this doesn't Philip> solve my problem right now. (I haven't heard any Philip> mention of it on [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Patch to aclocal

2003-03-05 Thread Guido Draheim
Harlan Stenn schrieb: I submitted a patch to handle this a while ago. Don't know what happened to it. H well, I think something like this needed in many places around, it doesn't quite matter how it is called or how it works. If the current patch proposal works, along with path-separator on a $AC

Re: Patch to aclocal

2003-03-05 Thread Harlan Stenn
I submitted a patch to handle this a while ago. Don't know what happened to it. H

Re: Patch to aclocal

2003-03-05 Thread Philip Willoughby
Today, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: "Philip" == Philip Willoughby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >[...] > > Philip> Unfortunately I couldn't find an env var to modify the > Philip> search path for aclocal > >There is an envvar called `ACLOCAL'. It is honored by `autoreconf' >and the rebuild ru

Re: Patch to aclocal

2003-03-05 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
>>> "Philip" == Philip Willoughby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] Philip> Unfortunately I couldn't find an env var to modify the Philip> search path for aclocal There is an envvar called `ACLOCAL'. It is honored by `autoreconf' and the rebuild rules in `Makefile'. See also http://sources.r

Re: Patch to aclocal

2003-03-05 Thread Richard Dawe
Hello. Philip Willoughby wrote: [snip] > or just > push (@dirlist, split (/@PATH_SEPARTOR@/, $ENV{ACLOCALPATH})); OK. > Either way we'll need to add the `ACX_CHECK_PATHNAME_STYLE_DOS' macro to > configure.in and acinclude.m4 [snip] Why? autoconf 2.50 and later set PATH_SEPARATOR already. a

Re: Patch to aclocal

2003-03-05 Thread Earnie Boyd
Philip Willoughby wrote: Today, Richard Dawe wrote: Unfortunately this is not portable to DOS. Oops - my bad. I should have tried it in MSYS I guess. I was modifying the installed code on linux rather than doing it properly... Would probably work in MSYS. You should try it in DJCPP environme

Re: Patch to aclocal

2003-03-05 Thread Philip Willoughby
Today, Richard Dawe wrote: >Unfortunately this is not portable to DOS. Oops - my bad. I should have tried it in MSYS I guess. I was modifying the installed code on linux rather than doing it properly... >If the patch in incorporated into automake, it should be aware of the path >separator. May

Re: Patch to aclocal

2003-03-05 Thread Richard Dawe
Hello. Philip Willoughby wrote: [snip] > I've built a script to set up the user's environment to include the latest > versions of the packages they want, it modifies CPATH, PATH, > LD_LIBRARY_PATH, MANPATH, INFOPATH and PKG_CONFIG_PATH to make sure > everything works. Unfortunately I couldn't fin

Patch to aclocal

2003-03-05 Thread Philip Willoughby
Hi, At our site we have a repository for experimental apps which are not as fully tested as we would like, or not entirely compatible with the version we have installed by default. Unfortunately since we have a fairly old base system this means that autoconf, automake, libtool et al have to live