Re: automake --build-dir

2000-04-03 Thread Bruce Korb
Earnie Boyd wrote: > > How about mv'ing itself out of the way (to configure.bak or something > > similar)? > > > > Can't do that either. A mv is a cp && rm. 1. It is only for developers 2 How about putting at the end: ( ( sleep 3 ; rm -f configure ; autoconf ) & ) exit 0 After 3 se

Re: automake --build-dir

2000-04-03 Thread Bruce Korb
Earnie Boyd wrote: > > --- Bruce Korb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I made an archive file named "configure" that contains > > a shar archive of the generated files. It runs, recreating > > the generated files, deletes itself and then runs autoconf. >^^ NOT

Re: automake --build-dir

2000-04-03 Thread Earnie Boyd
--- "Lars J. Aas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 06:57:33AM -0700, Earnie Boyd wrote: > : --- Bruce Korb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > : > I made an archive file named "configure" that contains > : > a shar archive of the generated files. It runs, recreating > : > the generat

Re: automake --build-dir

2000-04-03 Thread Lars J. Aas
On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 06:57:33AM -0700, Earnie Boyd wrote: : --- Bruce Korb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : > I made an archive file named "configure" that contains : > a shar archive of the generated files. It runs, recreating : > the generated files, deletes itself and then runs autoconf. :

Re: automake --build-dir

2000-04-03 Thread Earnie Boyd
--- Bruce Korb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -8<- > > I just installed a cute hack in the AutoGen CVS :-) > I made an archive file named "configure" that contains > a shar archive of the generated files. It runs, recreating > the generated files, deletes itself and then runs autoconf.

Re: automake --build-dir

2000-04-03 Thread Bruce Korb
Akim Demaille wrote: > >> Is it working for you when you start from a clean just-checked-out > >> repository? > > Alexandre> Nope. The first problem is that autoconf needs itself to > Alexandre> bootstrap. > > Not really, the CVS repository contains the full tarball (with > configure, Makefile.

Re: automake --build-dir

2000-04-03 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Akim" == Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Akim> CVS Autoconf sticks to Automake 1.4: that's why you find all Akim> those problems. Use 1.4 instead, that's the easier way out. Oops, now I remember you *should* use 1.4, otherwise, because we rely on something which has changed bet

Re: automake --build-dir

2000-04-03 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Alexandre> On Apr 2, 2000, Erez Zadok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Have you tried to make dist in a a build dir that's not srcdir? Alexandre> A long time ago, I installed a patch in autoconf to make it Alexandre> work. I don't kn

Re: automake --build-dir

2000-04-03 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Erez" == Erez Zadok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > Update: I managed to solve that problem by rerunning automake on >> the .am > files in the autoconf CVS repository. >> >> You must re-run aclocal before automake. Erez> Thanks. Erez> I still, however, seem to have a problem with make

Re: automake --build-dir

2000-04-02 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Apr 2, 2000, Erez Zadok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Have you tried to make dist in a a build dir that's not srcdir? A long time ago, I installed a patch in autoconf to make it work. I don't know if it has been broken again since then. > Is it working for you when you start from a clean ju

Re: automake --build-dir

2000-04-02 Thread Erez Zadok
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Alexandre Oliva writes: > On Apr 2, 2000, Erez Zadok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Update: I managed to solve that problem by rerunning automake on the .am > > files in the autoconf CVS repository. > > You must re-run aclocal before automake. Thanks. I still

Re: automake --build-dir

2000-04-01 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Apr 2, 2000, Erez Zadok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Update: I managed to solve that problem by rerunning automake on the .am > files in the autoconf CVS repository. You must re-run aclocal before automake. -- Alexandre OlivaEnjoy GuaranĂ¡, see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Cygnus So

Re: automake --build-dir

2000-04-01 Thread Erez Zadok
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Erez Zadok writes: > Autoconf expects automake to support a --build-dir option during "make > dist". Automake doesn't support that option. I have the most recent CVS'ed > versions. This has been not working for some time now. Will this simple > problem be fixed

automake --build-dir

2000-04-01 Thread Erez Zadok
Autoconf expects automake to support a --build-dir option during "make dist". Automake doesn't support that option. I have the most recent CVS'ed versions. This has been not working for some time now. Will this simple problem be fixed soon? Also, what's the difference b/t --build-dir and --ou