Ignore return value for documentation rules

2010-04-19 Thread BVK Chaitanya
Hi, Is there a way to instruct automake to ignore the exit status for info_TEXINFOS variable rule? I need this because, texinfo documentation is incomplete with many dangling references. thanks, -- bvk.chaitanya

Re: Ignore return value for documentation rules

2010-04-19 Thread BVK Chaitanya
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 6:46 PM, BVK Chaitanya wrote: > > Is there a way to instruct automake to ignore the exit status for > info_TEXINFOS variable rule?  I need this because, texinfo > documentation is incomplete with many dangling references. > I got this fixed by adding --no-validate flag to

Re: Teaching automake about dll defs

2010-04-19 Thread NightStrike
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 9:49 PM, NightStrike wrote: > On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 9:46 PM, NightStrike wrote: >> On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 9:43 PM, NightStrike wrote: >>> Would it be out of the question to teach automake how to handle a def >>> file as a source file for a library?  On windows platform

Re: Minimal example for perl program

2010-04-19 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Ole, Russ, * Russ Allbery wrote on Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 10:27:11PM CEST: > Ole Tange writes: > > $ cat src/Makefile.am > > dist_bin_SCRIPTS = parallel > > man_MANS = parallel.1 > > > parallel.1: parallel > >pod2man --release='$(PACKAGE_VERSION)' --center='$(PACKAGE_NAME)' \ > >

Re: Problem with parallel builds

2010-04-19 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Roberto, * Roberto Bagnara wrote on Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 02:33:25PM CEST: > we are about to release PPL 0.11 and Sebastian Pop (who is working > on GCC/Graphite) encountered a problem we never met, despite the fact > that we continuously build the PPL with make -j 7 on a machine with > 2 CPU

Re: Teaching automake about dll defs

2010-04-19 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello, * NightStrike wrote on Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 05:09:04PM CEST: > >>> Is this possible?  Is there anyone willing to do it? > >> > >> Addendum:  A big benefit for me (other than many other things) is that > >> it lets automake handle figuring out dependencies.  In my example, > >> libx.a doesn'

Re: Minimal example for perl program

2010-04-19 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 06:55:30PM CEST: > * Russ Allbery wrote on Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 10:27:11PM CEST: > > Ole Tange writes: > > > $ cat src/Makefile.am > > > dist_bin_SCRIPTS = parallel > > > man_MANS = parallel.1 > > > > > parallel.1: parallel > > >pod2man --rel

Re: Problem with parallel builds

2010-04-19 Thread Roberto Bagnara
On 04/19/2010 07:08 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Generated include headers need to be listed in BUILT_SOURCES so when building for the first time, they are created early. You know that, and in most cases, ppl.hh ends up there correctly, but it doesn't when the Automake conditional BUILD_CXX_INTERF

Regarding the JAVA primary

2010-04-19 Thread John Calcote
Hi Ralf, I've been thinking a lot about the JAVA primary lately. It turns out that Automake's handling of Java sources is pretty efficient. Experiments indicate that building ~500 Java source files in a single command takes about 15 seconds on a 1.8 GHz CPU with 512 MB RAM. That same set of 5

Re: Minimal example for perl program

2010-04-19 Thread Russ Allbery
Ralf Wildenhues writes: > * Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 06:55:30PM CEST: >> * Russ Allbery wrote on Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 10:27:11PM CEST: parallel.1: parallel pod2man --release='$(PACKAGE_VERSION)' --center='$(PACKAGE_NAME)' \ --section=1 paralle

Re: Minimal example for perl program

2010-04-19 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Russ Allbery wrote on Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 08:39:48PM CEST: > Ralf Wildenhues writes: > > * Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 06:55:30PM CEST: > >> * Russ Allbery wrote on Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 10:27:11PM CEST: > > parallel.1: parallel > pod2man --release='$(PACKAGE_

Re: Regarding the JAVA primary

2010-04-19 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi John, * John Calcote wrote on Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 08:25:22PM CEST: > Since the current implementation of the JAVA primary is not managing > individual source/object dependencies (something that's difficult to > do anyway because of inner and anonymous class definitions), would > it not be prud

Re: Regarding the JAVA primary

2010-04-19 Thread Steffen Dettmer
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 8:25 PM, John Calcote wrote: [...] > Builds in the Java world generally specify source files found > within a subtree using a globbing mechanism, with optionally > specified inclusions and exclusions. Yes, they do. BTW, does anyone know why? With some sarcasm someone cou

Re: Minimal example for perl program

2010-04-19 Thread Russ Allbery
Ralf Wildenhues writes: > * Russ Allbery wrote on Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 08:39:48PM CEST: >> Ralf Wildenhues writes: >>> * Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 06:55:30PM CEST: * Russ Allbery wrote on Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 10:27:11PM CEST: >> parallel.1: parallel >>pod

Re: Regarding the JAVA primary

2010-04-19 Thread John Calcote
Hi Steffen, On 4/19/2010 1:22 PM, Steffen Dettmer wrote: On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 8:25 PM, John Calcote wrote: [...] Builds in the Java world generally specify source files found within a subtree using a globbing mechanism, with optionally specified inclusions and exclusions. Yes,

Re: Regarding the JAVA primary

2010-04-19 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* John Calcote wrote on Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 09:52:51PM CEST: > I can certainly see how we may want to stick with the Automake > "static source file specification" rules for the reasons you point > out. In this case, it becomes more of an evangelistic documentation > issue. :) That is, we might be