Re: PATCH(2): make install-strip in cross-compilation environments

2001-02-19 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
>>> "Tom" == Tom Tromey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> "adl" == Alexandre Duret-Lutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: adl> 2001-01-28 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> adl> * m4/strip.m4: New file. adl> * m4/Makefile.am (m4data_DATA): Add strip.m4. adl> * m4/init.m4: Call AM_PROG_INS

Re: 29-backname.patch

2001-02-19 Thread Akim Demaille
"Lars J. Aas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 11:53:08AM +0100, Akim Demaille wrote: > : /tmp % ace --version nostromo 11:52 > : autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.49d > : Written by David J. MacKenzie. > > This is kind of an unfair statem

Re: AC_CANONICAL_* && *_triplet

2001-02-19 Thread Akim Demaille
Tom Tromey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > "Derek" == Derek R Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Derek> Is there a good reason that Automake renames the three > Derek> variables set by AC_CANONICAL_* ('build', 'host', & 'target') > Derek> to 'build_triplet', 'host_triplet', & 'target_trip

Re: removing $seen_canonical

2001-02-19 Thread Akim Demaille
"Derek R. Price" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've removed the references to $seen_canonical, re one of the FIXME > comments on the way to enabling traces. I know this patch is kinda > largish, but even if it doesn't get checked in yet, I'd like some > feedback. This is somewhat integral to my

Re: Patch 1 of 4: Better DOS path support

2001-02-19 Thread Akim Demaille
"Tim Van Holder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > - /* | [A-Za-z]:*) ;; > - */*) prog="`pwd`/$prog" ;; > + [/\\]* | [A-Za-z]:[/\\]*) ;; > + *[\\/]*) prog="`pwd`/$prog" ;; > @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ > # Always use an absolute srcdir. Otherwise symlinks made in subdirs > # of the test dir just won't work

Re: Patch 4 of 4: Minor typo

2001-02-19 Thread Akim Demaille
"Tim Van Holder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Tim> 2001-02-10 Tim Van Holder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Tim>* m4/sanity.m4: Quote AC_MSG_RESULT's argument. > > > > Why? > As I understand it, the current convention is that ALL arguments > to autoconf macros should be quoted (even trivia

Re: AM_CFLAGS

2001-02-19 Thread Akim Demaille
Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Feb 13, 2001, Tom Tromey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I don't want to remove anything from autoconf's blacklist. Doing that > > means we have to update autoconf whenever we change automake. > > Nope. CVS Autoconf has a macro to remove strin

Re: Testsuite fails

2001-02-19 Thread Akim Demaille
Tom Tromey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > "Pavel" == Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Pavel> AC_CHECK_TOOL([STRIP],[strip]) > > Yes, I wasn't thinking. I've removed this. > > Ideally we'd have some way to tell autoconf, "if this package can be > cross-compiled, then check for

Re: Testsuite fails

2001-02-19 Thread Akim Demaille
Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, Tom! > > > Pavel> AC_CHECK_TOOL([STRIP],[strip]) > > > > Yes, I wasn't thinking. I've removed this. > > > > Ideally we'd have some way to tell autoconf, "if this package can be > > cross-compiled, then check for a cross `strip' as well". Maybe

Re: AC_CANONICAL_*

2001-02-19 Thread Akim Demaille
Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, Derek! > > On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Derek R. Price wrote: > > > Why do the AC_CANONICAL_* functions no longer set *_alias? There's a > > "cvs annotate" and "cvs log" are your friends. Akim did it. But the log > message is silent about "FIXME". Akim

Re: PATCH: patsubst support

2001-02-19 Thread Pavel Roskin
Hello, Alex! > Here is a new version of the patsubst patch against cvs HEAD. Thanks! Were are getting closer. > + * automake.in (expand_contents): add new function to perform > + the patsubst expansion > + (value_to_list): add support for patsubst style variable > + substitution

RE: Patch 1 of 4: Better DOS path support

2001-02-19 Thread Tim Van Holder
> > - /* | [A-Za-z]:*) ;; > > - */*) prog="`pwd`/$prog" ;; > > + [/\\]* | [A-Za-z]:[/\\]*) ;; > > + *[\\/]*) prog="`pwd`/$prog" ;; > > > @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ > > # Always use an absolute srcdir. Otherwise symlinks made in subdirs > > # of the test dir just won't work. > > case "$srcdir" in > > -

Re: PATCH: patsubst support

2001-02-19 Thread Alex Hornby
Pavel Roskin writes: > > > - ($from = $2) =~ s/(\W)/\\$1/g; > > + ($from = $2) =~ s/(\W)/$1/g; > > I don't understrand this. This change will affect the traditional rules as > well. It should probably be a separate patch if it fixes a separate issue. > You may even need

$ in source file names

2001-02-19 Thread Robert Boehne
Alexandre Oliva wrote: > > But now think of an object file containing an odd character, such as a > blank, a quote, a dollar sign, etc. We *should* still work in this > case, so we must make sure to not eval $concat_cmds again. > > So we should probably use: > > eval concat_cmds=\"\$concat_cmd

Making a single library from multiple source directories

2001-02-19 Thread Paul Martinolich
I have a deep package, but each library is on par with a single directory, so liba_SOURCES, etc. works fine. But now I have a situation in which, the library contains many different parts and contains a lot of source. What is the best way using automake to accomplish this? I could dump them all