Re: Add missing bootstrap file

2009-11-16 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Alfred, * Alfred M. Szmidt wrote on Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 08:33:10PM CET: > You didn't answer why you need this switch, only that you want it. Various threads on this list during the last months document this, I would say. It otherwise isn't even hard to guess. ;-) Cheers, Ralf

Re: Add missing bootstrap file

2009-11-16 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
You didn't answer why you need this switch, only that you want it.

Re: Add missing bootstrap file

2009-11-15 Thread Jan Engelhardt
[Note that this has nothing to do with the bootstrap file] On Sunday 2009-11-15 17:44, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: > Index: automake/m4/init.m4 > === > --- automake.orig/m4/init.m4 > +++ automake/m4/init.m4 > @@ -107,6 +107,7

Re: Add missing bootstrap file

2009-11-15 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
Index: automake/m4/init.m4 === --- automake.orig/m4/init.m4 +++ automake/m4/init.m4 @@ -107,6 +107,7 @@ dnl is hooked onto _AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT e AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS_PRE(dnl [m4_provide_if([_AM_COMPILER_EXEEXT],

Re: Add missing bootstrap file

2009-11-14 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sat, 14 Nov 2009, Peter Johansson wrote: From where did you get that rule? It doesn't go very well with the fact that automake by default adds Makefile.am, configure.ac and other .m4 files to the tarball. Those files will never be useful for a pure ./configure; make; make install, but as s

Re: Add missing bootstrap file

2009-11-14 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Saturday 2009-11-14 14:06, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: >Hi Jan, > >* Jan Engelhardt wrote on Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 02:09:14AM CET: >> in the automake tarballs, the 'bootstrap' script is missing, but it >> would be needed when modifying any of the automake files in a tarball. > >Sounds reasonable t

Re: Add missing bootstrap file

2009-11-14 Thread Gaetan Nadon
On Sat, 2009-11-14 at 09:35 -0500, Peter Johansson wrote: > Gaetan Nadon wrote: > > > > If you want to modify files in automake, then you are doing development, > > rather than just installing the software. Given that automake requires > > itself, there may be special things to do. In any case, no

Re: Add missing bootstrap file

2009-11-14 Thread Peter Johansson
Gaetan Nadon wrote: If you want to modify files in automake, then you are doing development, rather than just installing the software. Given that automake requires itself, there may be special things to do. In any case, nothing should be added to the tarball that isn't required for installation.

Re: Add missing bootstrap file

2009-11-14 Thread Gaetan Nadon
On Sat, 2009-11-14 at 14:06 +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Hi Jan, > > * Jan Engelhardt wrote on Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 02:09:14AM CET: > > in the automake tarballs, the 'bootstrap' script is missing, but it > > would be needed when modifying any of the automake files in a tarball. > > Sounds r

Re: Add missing bootstrap file

2009-11-14 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Jan, * Jan Engelhardt wrote on Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 02:09:14AM CET: > in the automake tarballs, the 'bootstrap' script is missing, but it > would be needed when modifying any of the automake files in a tarball. Sounds reasonable to me, esp. since it doesn't even use git in any way (yet). >

Re: --add-missing

2007-07-24 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Eric Polino wrote on Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 10:31:43PM CEST: > > I'm sort of confused on my options, is this correct? > > 1. AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([.]) in finch/libgnt/configure.ac && >AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([.]) in configure.ac > > OR > > 2. AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([.]) in finch/libgnt/configure.ac && >

Re: --add-missing

2007-07-24 Thread Eric Polino
On 7/24/07, Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Eric, * Eric Polino wrote on Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 06:00:44AM CEST: > > Here lies the problem. If I run toplevel/ag.sh it creates > finch/libgnt/Makefile.in, as it always has and should. Within there > it generates a variable called D

Re: --add-missing

2007-07-24 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Eric, * Eric Polino wrote on Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 06:00:44AM CEST: > > Here lies the problem. If I run toplevel/ag.sh it creates > finch/libgnt/Makefile.in, as it always has and should. Within there > it generates a variable called DIST_COMMON which doesn't reference the > automake scripts

Re: --add-missing broken

2001-05-05 Thread Tom Tromey
> "Akim" == Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Ralf" == Ralf Corsepius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ralf> Related question: Which directory is am_dir/--am-dir supposed to Ralf> point to, now? <..>/automake/ or <..>/automake/am? Akim> Good question. No idea what Tom will prefer.

Re: --add-missing broken

2001-05-04 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Ralf" == Ralf Corsepius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ralf> Hi, At present time, automake --add-missing is broken. Ralf> Apparent cause is this patch below. Doh! Thanks! Weird that the test suite did not catch this. Ralf> Related question: Which directory is am_dir/--am-dir supposed to R

Re: --add-missing

2000-11-14 Thread Derek R. Price
Alexandre Oliva wrote: > On Nov 13, 2000, "Derek R. Price" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Okay, is there some way short of symlinking the > > /usr/share/automake/texinfo.tex file by hand to make sure that automake > > --add-missing uses the "proper" texinfo.tex file (i.e. the one installed > >

Re: --add-missing

2000-11-13 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Nov 13, 2000, "Derek R. Price" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Okay, is there some way short of symlinking the > /usr/share/automake/texinfo.tex file by hand to make sure that automake > --add-missing uses the "proper" texinfo.tex file (i.e. the one installed > with the texinfo package and assume