Re: FYI: summary of 1.8.0a bug fixes

2004-01-07 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
>>> "Kevin" == Kevin P Fleming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Kevin> Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: Kevin> (from automake-patches) >> + - Honor definitions in m4_included files. aclocal 1.8 had been >> +updated to check m4_included files for new requirements, but >> +forgot that these m4

bug 285/distinguished install targets for ltlibraries

2004-01-07 Thread Harlan Stenn
I'm looking for a fast fix to this problem, as it is the current sticking point on a bunch of other changes I need to implement for a project. I don't know if I'll have the time to implement the potential fixes described in the bug report at this time, so I'm wondering if there may be another way

Re: bug 285/distinguished install targets for ltlibraries

2004-01-07 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 11:52:41PM -0800, Harlan Stenn wrote: > I'm looking for a fast fix to this problem, as it is the current sticking > point on a bunch of other changes I need to implement for a project. > > I don't know if I'll have the time to implement the potential fixes > described in the

Re: bug 285/distinguished install targets for ltlibraries

2004-01-07 Thread Harlan Stenn
Easier still! Thanks very much! I really do need to leave and get some sleep... H

[PATCH] cleanup config.status.lineno

2004-01-07 Thread Eric Sunshine
Hello, Here is a patch for Automake which ensures that generated makefiles also clean up config.status.lineno at distclean time. (Makefiles already know how to clean up configure.lineno, but neglect to remove its cousin.) Eric 2003-01-07 Eric Sunshine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * lib/a

Re: config.guess and freedom (was: 1.8 and mkdir_p)

2004-01-07 Thread Bruno Haible
Harlan Stenn wrote in a footnote: > There are people who think a config.guess output that says: > > i686-pc-linux-gnu > > is "normal", while some of us feel that is a particularly useless value and > would prefer to see something like: > > i686-pc-redhat7.3 > > instead, just like the original doc

Re: KOZRC, the present translation

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Question about common_files

2004-01-07 Thread Lars Hecking
I have a software package that includes another package in a subdirectory: package_a/ ... package_a/package_b/ ... In order to build a standalone version of package_b, I'm running the following commands to make sure that no auto* generated files reference the parent dir: cd package_a/pa

Re: Question about common_files

2004-01-07 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
>>> "Lars" == Lars Hecking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] Lars> Question: how does automake know that these files are in Lars> the parent directory? Does it always check the parent Lars> directory for such files? Lars> Not that I'm complaining about this, just want to know Lars> what's

Re: config.guess and freedom (was: 1.8 and mkdir_p)

2004-01-07 Thread Harlan Stenn
(I am in a slightly crabby mood. I apologize. Bikeshed begins.) > Harlan Stenn wrote in a footnote: > > There are people who think a config.guess output that says: > > > > i686-pc-linux-gnu > > > > is "normal", while some of us feel that is a particularly useless value and > > would prefer to s

Re: Question about common_files

2004-01-07 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 09:15:58PM +, Lars Hecking wrote: > Question: how does automake know that [install-sh etc.] are in the parent directory? > Does it always check the parent directory for such files? It searches the AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR directories. For standalone distributions of the sub

Re: config.guess and freedom (was: 1.8 and mkdir_p)

2004-01-07 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 22:51, Harlan Stenn wrote: > > A configure script that has to check for 125 brand names, only for Linux, > > is not only unmaintainable, it also limits the freedom to fork a new > > distribution. > > So for this reason people who write scripts (autoconf or otherwise) who can

Re: NR, apollonovichs wife asked

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Re: using --tag=XXX in automake-generated rules

2004-01-07 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
>>> "adl" == Alexandre Duret-Lutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] adl> 2004-01-02 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> adl> Fix for PR automake/289: adl> * automake.in (Automake::Struct::libtool_tag): New attribute. Define adl> it for the language that have a Libtool tag. adl> (%li