aclocal 1.8 produces useless aclocal.m4

2004-08-01 Thread Sam Steingold
:344: warning: AC_COMPILE_IFELSE was called before AC_AIX configure.ac:344: the top level configure.ac:344: warning: AC_RUN_IFELSE was called before AC_AIX ... -- Sam Steingold (http://www.podval.org/~sds) running w2k <http://www.camera.org> <http://www.iris.org.il> <http://w

Re: aclocal 1.8 produces useless aclocal.m4

2004-08-01 Thread Sam Steingold
> * Alexandre Duret-Lutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-08-01 19:29:18 +0200]: > >>>> "Sam" == Sam Steingold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Sam> I have been using > Sam> aclocal -I src/m4 --output=src/autoconf/aclocal.m4 > Sam> to produ

multiple configure.ac --> single aclocal.m4

2005-08-04 Thread Sam Steingold
onceonly.m4, but that file is not included in aclocal.m4). So: how do I use aclocal.m4 with multiple subpackage configure.in? thanks! -- Sam Steingold (http://www.podval.org/~sds) running w2k <http://www.jihadwatch.org/> <http://www.honestreporting.com> <http://www.mideasttruth.

Re: multiple configure.ac --> single aclocal.m4

2005-08-04 Thread Sam Steingold
> * Braden McDaniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-08-04 13:00:01 -0400]: > > Sam Steingold wrote: >> I have a large package with many subpackages. >> each subpackage has its own configure.ac. >> how do I generate aclocal.m4? > > [snip] > >> So:

error: possibly undefined macro: AC_CHECK_HEADERS_ONCE

2005-08-05 Thread Sam Steingold
ocal.m4 (when I do $ cat m4/onceonly.m4>>autoconf/aclocal.m4 it works, of course). So, the question is: why isn't onceonly.m4 appended to aclocal.m4? Again, aclocal.m4 is created by $ aclocal -I `pwd`/src/m4 --output=src/autoconf/aclocal.m4 Thanks! -- Sam Steingold (http://www.po

Re: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_CHECK_HEADERS_ONCE

2005-08-06 Thread Sam Steingold
w about > modules/regexp/configure.in. ./configure.ac is the ad hoc concatenation of the the sub-package configures, including modules/regexp/configure.in. specifically, it contains gl_INCLUDED_REGEX([regex.c]) and src/m4/regex.m4 defines it and calls AC_CHECK_HEADERS_ONCE &c. -- Sam Steingold (h

Re: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_CHECK_HEADERS_ONCE

2005-08-07 Thread Sam Steingold
Hi, thanks for your replies. > * Stepan Kasal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-08-07 09:17:30 +0200]: > > On Sat, Aug 06, 2005 at 10:51:28PM -0400, Sam Steingold wrote: >> > * Stepan Kasal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-08-06 17:41:14 +0200]: >> > >> >&

Re: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_CHECK_HEADERS_ONCE

2005-08-23 Thread Sam Steingold
is the default > on >systems with recent-enough versions of the GNU C > @@ -117,10 +106,7 @@ AC_DEFUN([gl_INCLUDED_REGEX], > AC_LIBOBJ([regex]) > gl_PREREQ_REGEX > fi > - ], > -) > - ] > -) > +]) > > # Prerequisites of lib/regex.c and lib/regex_interna

Re: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_CHECK_HEADERS_ONCE

2005-08-24 Thread Sam Steingold
> * Stepan Kasal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-08-24 07:46:51 +0200]: > > On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 04:41:22PM -0400, Sam Steingold wrote: >> GNU CLISP comes with regex.c and it places it in the "current" >> directory. >> clisp/modules/regexp/configure.in &g

Re: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_CHECK_HEADERS_ONCE

2005-08-25 Thread Sam Steingold
> * Stepan Kasal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-08-25 11:06:00 +0200]: > > On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 10:30:44PM -0400, Sam Steingold wrote: >> gnulib CVS head does not contain gl_INCLUDED_REGEX. > > (gl_REGEX): Don't bother checking whether lib/regex.c exists; > assume

different errors on different machines

2007-10-18 Thread Sam Steingold
on one machine (work) I can run automake (1.9.6), although I get a warning: $ automake gllib/Makefile configure.in:85: warning: AC_CANONICAL_BUILD invoked multiple times aclocal.m4:4583: CL_CANONICAL_HOST is expanded from... configure.in:85: the top level configure.in:85: warning: AC_CANONICAL_HO

how to avoid automake dependency?

2007-10-22 Thread Sam Steingold
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I put some gnulib code into my project (in directory gllib) and now I _sometimes_ (usually it works) get this error: make -C gllib make[1]: Entering directory `/space/sbcl-arch/autobench/+clisp/src/gllib' cd .. && gmake am--refresh gmake[2]: Entering

Re: how to avoid automake dependency?

2007-10-22 Thread Sam Steingold
Eric Blake wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Sam Steingold on 10/22/2007 8:29 AM: I put some gnulib code into my project (in directory gllib) and now I _sometimes_ (usually it works) get this error: /space/sbcl-arch/autobench/+clisp/src/build-aux/missing --run

Re: how to avoid automake dependency?

2007-10-23 Thread Sam Steingold
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Ralf, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > [ let's cut bug-gnulib from this ] as you wish - gnulib-tool inflicted automake on me, so I wanted them to have a cut in my sufferings... > * Sam Steingold wrote on Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 04:0

aclocal.m4 location

2009-08-04 Thread Sam Steingold
Hi, automake requires aclocal.m4 to be present in the current directory. this is not the case for me, I have one master aclocal.m4 and a few subprojects, each with its own Makefile.am and configure.in. this means that for automake to run, I have to create a temp symlynk for aclocal.m4 and then the

Re: .deps/foo.Po:1: *** multiple target patterns. Stop.

2009-08-10 Thread Sam Steingold
7;ve even > been able to say what exactly your issue is, and whether it is an > Automake one.  ;-) <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.gnulib.bugs/18253> -- Sam Steingold <http://sds.podval.org>

Re: .deps/foo.Po:1: *** multiple target patterns. Stop.

2009-08-10 Thread Sam Steingold
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 4:39 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * Sam Steingold wrote on Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 10:23:50PM CEST: >> On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: >> > If you had given a reference to the discussion where this occurred >> > initially (

Re: .deps/foo.Po:1: *** multiple target patterns. Stop.

2009-08-10 Thread Sam Steingold
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 5:25 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * Sam Steingold wrote on Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 11:10:14PM CEST: >> >> this is a plain cygwin installation. > > Then you should use /cygdrive/c/... style paths, not C:/... ones.  Your > compiler will understand the

Re: aclocal.m4 location

2009-08-11 Thread Sam Steingold
Hi Ralf, On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * Sam Steingold wrote on Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 06:06:03PM CEST: >> automake requires aclocal.m4 to be present in the current directory. >> this is not the case for me, I have one master aclocal.m4 and a few >&

Re: How to specify a directory for INSTALL, NEWS & Co

2009-08-25 Thread Sam Steingold
Hilco Wijbenga wrote: How do I tell Automake to look in '..' instead of '.'?

config.guess location

2009-09-02 Thread Sam Steingold
can install `depcomp' is there a way out? the only thing that comes to mind is to create a symlink to '$aux_dir' (i.e., the name which has a $ in it) before automake and remove it afterwards. ugly, but no errors. what is the right way? thanks. -- Sam Steingold (http://sds.pod

Re: config.guess location

2009-09-03 Thread Sam Steingold
Hi Ralf, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: * Sam Steingold wrote on Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 06:26:53AM CEST: Some packages install "build-aux" files (config.guess, config.sub, install-sh et al) so that their add-ons can rely on them. It would seem to be a relatively easy: = configure.ac AC