Re: Additional aclocal dir

2000-03-13 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Assar" == Assar Westerlund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Assar> "Gabor Z. Papp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> can I use/define somehow additional aclocal directory, where I can >> put additional m4 files? Assar> Yes, use `aclocal -I dir' where dir is the directory of your Assar> additional

Re: test pr19 failure: explanation

2000-03-13 Thread Pavel Roskin
Hello, Tom! I'm terribly sorry that I overlooked this message and left it unanswered for more than one week :-( > Jim> I've just looked into the failure of test pr19. > > I don't understand. > pr19.test works fine for me. The problem is that if you configure automake in the source directory (i

Re: Patch: $(wildcard *.c) style globbing

2000-03-13 Thread John Fremlin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Johan Danielsson) writes: > > + local @list = glob($relative_dir); > > Please don't use glob. It's broken. Sorry, I don't understand how )-: I found two QAs in the Perl FAQ about glob: [...] By default glob() forks csh(1) to do the actual glob exp

Re: Patch: $(wildcard *.c) style globbing

2000-03-13 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Mar 12, 2000, John Fremlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Johan Danielsson) writes: >> > + local @list = glob($relative_dir); >> >> Please don't use glob. It's broken. > Sorry, I don't understand how )-: It doesn't matter. This won't go into automake, because the

Re: Patch: $(wildcard *.c) style globbing

2000-03-13 Thread Johan Danielsson
John Fremlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Please don't use glob. It's broken. > > Sorry, I don't understand how )-: There are many problems. One problem not mentioned is that csh (on some platforms) like to stat just about every file it can find. This is not a big deal on most machines, but

Re: Additional aclocal dir

2000-03-13 Thread Assar Westerlund
Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS = -I dir > > which is slighly better, since I don't think autoreconf will recognize > the former, while it definitely knows the latter. Yes, but autoreconf 2.13 does not understand that. :-( /assar

Re: Patch: $(wildcard *.c) style globbing

2000-03-13 Thread Russ Allbery
Johan Danielsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There are many problems. One problem not mentioned is that csh (on some > platforms) like to stat just about every file it can find. This is not a > big deal on most machines, but if you happen to be using a networked > file system, it can be a real

Re: m4/missing.m4 in CVS

2000-03-13 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Feb 2, 2000, Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Alexandre> Only CVS autoconf accepts implicitly quotes backticks in Alexandre> MSGs. But it complains if backtick is already quoted. Alexandre> Relying upon the autoconf-CV

Re: m4/missing.m4 in CVS

2000-03-13 Thread Akim Demaille
| On Feb 2, 2000, Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | >> "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Alexandre> Only CVS autoconf accepts implicitly quotes backticks in | Alexandre> MSGs. But it complains if backtick is already quoted. | Alexandre> Relying upon the a

Re: m4/missing.m4 in CVS

2000-03-13 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Mar 13, 2000, Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And again, I shall emphasize that this little comfort is a myth: you > *need* to update Automake if you update Autoconf, let it be because > Automake still doesn't support AC_CONFIG_FILES, AC_CONFIG_HEADERS and > the like, new AC_SUBST v

Re: m4/missing.m4 in CVS

2000-03-13 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Alexandre> On Mar 13, 2000, Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> And again, I shall emphasize that this little comfort is a myth: >> you *need* to update Automake if you update Autoconf, let it be >> because Automake still do

Re: m4/missing.m4 in CVS

2000-03-13 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Mar 13, 2000, Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Alexandre> On Mar 13, 2000, Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> And again, I shall emphasize that this little comfort is a myth: >>> you *need* to update Automake i

Re: m4/missing.m4 in CVS

2000-03-13 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Alexandre> I'd really prefer to have a stable release of automake with Alexandre> the many the new features introduced since release 1.4, Alexandre> particularly user-side dependency tracking, before starting Alexandre> to rely on C