Hi all,
Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> On Mon, 29 May 2006, Stefan Puiu wrote:
>> However, people haven't mentioned yet the main point in Peter Miller's
>> paper - dependency handling, which I think is very important (I would
>> say significantly more important than the ability to type "make clean"
>>
On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 08:29 +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> Hi Ralf,
>
> * Ralf Corsepius wrote on Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 05:44:00AM CEST:
> > On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 23:15 +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > > GNU Autoconf test version 2.59d is now available.
> > >
> > > This is a beta release, intend
Ralf Corsepius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> => If automake doesn't hold what it promises, it's a bug in automake
At the very least there is a documentation problem in Automake,
because nowhere does it say that you can't have a test named 'test' --
a situation that caused coreutils 'make check' t
On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 02:22 -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Ralf Corsepius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > => If automake doesn't hold what it promises, it's a bug in automake
>
> At the very least there is a documentation problem in Automake,
> because nowhere does it say that you can't have a tes
Hello Ralf,
* Ralf Corsepius wrote on Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 10:07:15AM CEST:
> On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 08:29 +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
We are seriously talking past each other.
> > If you are using
> > Automake, the changed directory variables (assuming you are referring to
> > them) will be
Hello Paul and Ralves,
the change discussed here was triggered by problems with Solaris'
make.
I agree that the Automake manual could mention this bad scenario,
perhaps something like:
``Avoid files with names identical to shell builtins or basic
commands; during a VPATH build, Solaris' @command{
On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 14:00 +0200, Stepan Kasal wrote:
> Hello Paul and Ralves,
>
> the change discussed here was triggered by problems with Solaris'
> make.
>
> I agree that the Automake manual could mention this bad scenario,
> perhaps something like:
> ``Avoid files with names identical to she
Ralf Corsepius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The sub-sentence I consider to be wrong is this:
>
> INSTALL now suggests VPATH builds (e.g., "sh ../srcdir/configure")
> only if you use GNU make.
This is merely a sentence taken from the NEWS file for Autoconf. It
isn't a constraint on Autoconf'
