CDPATH problems

2001-09-23 Thread Christoph Pfisterer
Hi! Is there any special reason that automake 1.5 sets CDPATH to ':' in some tests in auxdir.m4 and init.m4? This breaks automake (and configure scripts generated from it) on platforms like Darwin (a.k.a Mac OS X), where /bin/sh is zsh. What happens is that the 'cd' also prints the new direct

Re: CDPATH problems

2001-09-23 Thread akim
On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 10:03:05AM +0200, Christoph Pfisterer wrote: > Hi! > > Is there any special reason that automake 1.5 sets CDPATH to ':' in That's something we are currently solving in the current CVS Automake :) Yep, it's a pain :(

Re: help with magically appearing _OBJECTS variable

2001-09-23 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
>>> "Ben" == Ben Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] Ben> Another option for me may have been to put all the Ben> optional stuff in a separate directory and add that Ben> directory via @extra tests@ to one of the Makefile.am Ben> files. You could do it in a similar way, without playing

Re: Bugs/Features in handling of continued Makefile rules

2001-09-23 Thread Dean Povey
>> However, I wouldn't want Automake to move the comments. Automake >> isn't, and doesn't try to be, a make-rule validator for the >> user-written rules in Makefile.am. It should not move things around >> inside the rules nor should it remove or add lines to those rules. > >Yes. Equally however

Re: AM_CONDITIONAL

2001-09-23 Thread Jens Krüger
[snip] > > /bin/sh: cd: SoNXLakeShore: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden > > Can you translate the message to English? I'm guessing that the > directory doesn't exist (since that's pretty much the main reason 'cd' > would complain in a build tree). Sorry, for the missing translation: /bin/sh