Re: Building prog first

2010-03-23 Thread Steffen Dettmer
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Reuben Thomas wrote: > Not true. automake does not have explicit support for building > programs with the host compiler when cross-compiling, but I > have done this successfully in the past when I needed precisely > to build a program on the host when cross compili

Re: Building prog first

2010-03-23 Thread Russell Shaw
Steffen Dettmer wrote: On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Reuben Thomas wrote: Not true. automake does not have explicit support for building programs with the host compiler when cross-compiling, but I have done this successfully in the past when I needed precisely to build a program on the host

Re: Building prog first

2010-03-23 Thread Steffen Dettmer
(OT) On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 11:50 PM, John Calcote wrote: > Reuben, you've just hit upon one of the two most significant > problems with Javadoc and the like (including doxygen, man > pages, and info pages): sorry, I cannot leave this, because this would be an excuse for people `but we have to

Re: Building prog first

2010-03-23 Thread Reuben Thomas
On 23 March 2010 06:03, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Hello Reuben, > > * Reuben Thomas wrote on Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 04:44:17PM CET: >> 2010/3/22 Russell Shaw: >> > Steffen Dettmer wrote: >> >> * On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: >> >>> BTW, execution of built programs like this

Re: Building prog first

2010-03-23 Thread Reuben Thomas
On 23 March 2010 10:15, Steffen Dettmer wrote: >> This illustrates a weirdness of autotools: poor support for >> installing interpreted languages, and also conversely for >> build-time compiled programs. > > Yes, also for coffee-cooking there is poor support only. :-) Sure, but autotools is for b

Re: Building prog first

2010-03-23 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
2010/3/22 Alfred M. Szmidt : > If searching is the problem *Web* searching is the answer, not the problem. It isn't when you are not connected to a network. > how does the indices not fix the problem? I rarely find anything useful in the indices other than particular function

Re: Building prog first

2010-03-23 Thread Reuben Thomas
On 23 March 2010 17:15, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: > >   2010/3/22 Alfred M. Szmidt : >   > If searching is the problem > >   *Web* searching is the answer, not the problem. > > It isn't when you are not connected to a network. I usually wait until I am; it often takes me rather longer to answer que

Re: Building prog first

2010-03-23 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
You say that the manuals are poor and that it is obvious, but I cannot figure out from your explanation how they are poor. I've looked at a few manuals, glibc, emacs, coreutils, autoconf, and m4, and all of them have good indices, are organised cleanly, etc. Can you mention one or two manuals, an

Re: Building prog first

2010-03-23 Thread Reuben Thomas
On 23 March 2010 18:12, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: > You say that the manuals are poor I said that the indices are poor, specifically at indexing concepts rather than just keywords, function names &c., in general. I also said that the manuals in general are excellent. > and that it is obvious, but

Keeping source directory structure

2010-03-23 Thread Brendon Costa
Hi all, I have been using automake for a while now, however I recently came across an issue i haven't had to worry about before, which is having duplicate named source files under different directory structures producing conflicting object files. Say i have a source directory structure like: /bla