Re: Regarding automake and autoconf

2001-06-20 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
[...] Sreekant> Secondly, how would I ogranize source code in different Sreekant> directories and the make files in totally seperate Sreekant> directories? Maybe you want a setup similar to the one used in the PalmOS Emulator sources. (Get the Unix sources here: http://www.palmos.com/dev/te

unterminated conditionals

2001-06-20 Thread Kremp, Johannes (Extern)
i wrote in my 'configure.in': SWITCH=hello AM_CONDITIONAL(HELLO, test "$SWITCH" = hello) and in my 'Makefile.am':if HELLO ... endif 'automake' told me: automake: src/Mak

automatic dependency tracking

2001-06-20 Thread Kremp, Johannes (Extern)
hi, is there a patch which make it possible to make dependency-tracking with other compiler than 'gcc'? johannes

Re: install-strip and bin_SCRIPTS

2001-06-20 Thread Emil Ong
I'm sorry, I'm using the latest CVS. I just updated this morning. I'm still getting the same error (File format not recognized) with install-strip. Do I need to refresh any scripts? I deleted install-sh and ran automake --add-missing --copy, but that didn't fix it either. Thanks, Emil On 19

Re: install-strip and bin_SCRIPTS

2001-06-20 Thread Tom Tromey
> "Emil" == Emil Ong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Emil> I'm sorry, I'm using the latest CVS. I just updated this Emil> morning. I'm still getting the same error (File format not Emil> recognized) with install-strip. Ok, there's definitely something wrong here. But without a test case I don'

Re: automatic dependency tracking

2001-06-20 Thread Tom Tromey
> "Johannes" == Kremp, Johannes (Extern) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Johannes> hi, is there a patch which make it possible to make Johannes> dependency-tracking with other compiler than 'gcc'? This is one of the major new features in the cvs automake. Tom

Re: unterminated conditionals

2001-06-20 Thread Tom Tromey
> "Johannes" == Kremp, Johannes (Extern) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: What version of automake are you using? Please include version info in every bug report. Johannes> and in my 'Makefile.am': if HELLO Johannes> ... Johannes>

Re: install-strip and bin_SCRIPTS

2001-06-20 Thread Emil Ong
Ok, sure. I made a directory called am-test and put these files in it: Makefile.am -- bin_SCRIPTS = myscript configure.in - AC_INIT(myscript) AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(am-test, 1.0) AC_OUTPUT(Makefile) myscript - #!/bin/sh echo "Hello, World"

Feature suggestion

2001-06-20 Thread Tom Tromey
Lately I've been thinking that it was a mistake to introduce _LTLIBRARIES as a parallel primary to _LIBRARIES. I think we could just have _LIBRARIES and then base decisions on the extension. This would also let us use the same mechanism for Java jar and zip files. This is of course a post-1.5 t

Re: Recursive make harmful

2001-06-20 Thread Tom Tromey
> "adl" == Alexandre Duret-Lutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Tom> The idea would be to read all the Makefile.am Tom> at once and then generate a single large Makefile.in. adl> There is something nice about having one Makefile.am in each adl> subdirectory, it's that it helps to make selfcontai

Re: Recursive make harmful

2001-06-20 Thread Tom Tromey
> "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Richard> With separate Makefile.am's in each directory, Richard> automake should be able to figure the bar/foo out from Richard> the directory paths. The user shouldn't have to worry Richard> about what the path to the top-level is

Re: Patches in Gnats?

2001-06-20 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jun 19, 2001, Tom Tromey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> I was thinking I could create a new `patch' category in the automake >>> Gnats and ask people to put such patches there as attachments. What >>> do people think of this?

Re: Feature suggestion

2001-06-20 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jun 20, 2001, Tom Tromey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Lately I've been thinking that it was a mistake to introduce > _LTLIBRARIES as a parallel primary to _LIBRARIES. I think we could > just have _LIBRARIES and then base decisions on the extension. This > would also let us use the same mecha

Re: Recursive make harmful

2001-06-20 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jun 20, 2001, Tom Tromey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Richard> With separate Makefile.am's in each directory, Richard> automake should be able to figure the bar/foo out from Richard> the directory paths. The user shouldn't have t