Re: GSoC project idea: non-recursive automake project

2011-03-21 Thread NightStrike
On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Harlan Stenn wrote: > Pippijn wrote: > >> On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 05:26:58PM -0700, Harlan Stenn wrote: >> > If there was a student interested in showing how "easy" it was to use >> > automake to do non-recursive Makefiles for a project, I'd be willing to >> > co-m

don't install .la do install .so

2011-03-21 Thread Paul Elliott
According to the Fedora Packaging:Guidelines http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines .la files should not be installed: > Packaging Static Libraries > > Packages including libraries should exclude static libs as far as possible > (eg by configuring with --disable-static). Static librar

Re: don't install .la do install .so

2011-03-21 Thread Nick Bowler
On 2011-03-21 10:52 -0500, Paul Elliott wrote: > According to the Fedora Packaging:Guidelines > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines > > .la files should not be installed: This is a task for the Fedora packagers, and not for developers to bake into their makefiles. See below. > Ho

Re: don't install .la do install .so

2011-03-21 Thread Andrew W. Nosenko
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 17:52, Paul Elliott wrote: > According to the Fedora Packaging:Guidelines > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines > > .la files should not be installed: >> Packaging Static Libraries >> >> Packages including libraries should exclude static libs as far as possib

Re: don't install .la do install .so

2011-03-21 Thread Peter O'Gorman
On 03/21/2011 10:52 AM, Paul Elliott wrote: According to the Fedora Packaging:Guidelines http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines .la files should not be installed: Packaging Static Libraries How do I create a Makefile.am for a shared library so that make install will not install

Re: GSoC project idea: non-recursive automake project

2011-03-21 Thread Roger Leigh
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 11:49:39AM -0400, NightStrike wrote: > On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Harlan Stenn wrote: > > Pippijn wrote: > > > >> On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 05:26:58PM -0700, Harlan Stenn wrote: > >> > If there was a student interested in showing how "easy" it was to use > >> > automake

Re: GSoC project idea: non-recursive automake project

2011-03-21 Thread Nick Bowler
On 2011-03-19 12:07 +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Maybe such a proposal could be enhanced to avoid having not enough work: [...] > This way the student will not get bored. However, it might be harder > to define specific goals to achieve, or to define success in the end. I have two suggestions

Re: don't install .la do install .so

2011-03-21 Thread Paul Elliott
On Monday, March 21, 2011 12:51:11 pm Nick Bowler wrote: > On 2011-03-21 10:52 -0500, Paul Elliott wrote: > > According to the Fedora Packaging:Guidelines > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines > > > .la files should not be installed: > This is a task for the Fedora packagers, and

Re: GSoC project idea: non-recursive automake project

2011-03-21 Thread Steffen Dettmer
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 7:36 PM, Roger Leigh wrote: > Can't automake rewrite the relative paths to be absolute? This would break things, for example when using WINE via wrapper scripts, require fixed srcdir pathes... oki, Steffen

Re: don't install .la do install .so

2011-03-21 Thread Nick Bowler
On 2011-03-21 14:13 -0500, Paul Elliott wrote: > On Monday, March 21, 2011 12:51:11 pm Nick Bowler wrote: > > Since Fedora has complete control over how packages are configured > > and installed, they can afford to make the necessary arrangements > > rendering the .la files unnecessary. [...] > Wel

Re: [GSoC Proposal] automake - Interfacing with a test protocol like TAP or subunit

2011-03-21 Thread Stefano Lattarini
Summarizing a long discussion: > > ABSTRACT: > > The Test Anything Protocol (TAP) is a simple text-based protocol > that allows communication between test scripts and a test harness. > > [HUGE CUT] > Hello all, and especially hello Robert (yes, I'm shamelessly asking for your partecipation he

Re: don't install .la do install .so

2011-03-21 Thread Andrew W. Nosenko
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 21:13, Paul Elliott wrote: > On Monday, March 21, 2011 12:51:11 pm Nick Bowler wrote: >> On 2011-03-21 10:52 -0500, Paul Elliott wrote: >> > According to the Fedora Packaging:Guidelines >> > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines >> >> > .la files should not be

Re: don't install .la do install .so

2011-03-21 Thread Paul Elliott
On Monday, March 21, 2011 02:13:24 pm Paul Elliott wrote: > It seems dumb to have make install install a file only to have the distro > remove it, is there anyway to tell make install not to install it? I guess I should not do it that way because somebody might want to use the auto*tools setup

Re: [GSoC Proposal] automake - Interfacing with a test protocol like TAP or subunit

2011-03-21 Thread Robert Collins
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 8:41 AM, Stefano Lattarini > to its suboptimal documentation.  So I'm going to ask: Robert, as > the main proposer/supporter of the SubUnit protocol here, would you > be willing and ready to help me out during my prospective work with > GSoC, if I update my application's goa

Re: [GSoC Proposal] automake - Interfacing with a test protocol like TAP or subunit

2011-03-21 Thread Jelmer Vernooij
On Tue, 2011-03-22 at 10:48 +1300, Robert Collins wrote: > On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 8:41 AM, Stefano Lattarini > > to its suboptimal documentation. So I'm going to ask: Robert, as > > the main proposer/supporter of the SubUnit protocol here, would you > > be willing and ready to help me out during

c file used as a make file

2011-03-21 Thread Paul Elliott
I have a c library that currently uses an old style Makefile that I want to convert to auto*tools. One .c file is used as a .h file. That is, it is included by another .c file and it should not be itself compiled. Why the author did this I do not know, but I do not want to change the author's