Re: Cache variable name for AC_CHECK_LIBS

2019-11-27 Thread Bert Wesarg
No reaction since 3.5 years. Bug still persists. On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 8:48 PM Bert Wesarg wrote: > > Dear Autotconf developers, > > I just realized, that the cache variable name for AC_CHECK_LIBS does > not conform to the documented one if AS_LITERAL_WORD_IF fails for the >

Re: ${ac_fc_srcext-f} considered harmful

2019-04-02 Thread Bert Wesarg
ompiler_gnu=$ac_cv_fc_compiler_gnu -- 2.17.0.591.ge996b92f55 On Sat, Dec 1, 2018 at 3:39 PM Bert Wesarg wrote: > > ,Dear all, > > AC_LANG(Fortran) uses the above parameter expansion to set `ac_ext`, see here: > > > http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/autoconf.git/tree/lib/au

${ac_fc_srcext-f} considered harmful

2018-12-01 Thread Bert Wesarg
,Dear all, AC_LANG(Fortran) uses the above parameter expansion to set `ac_ext`, see here: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/autoconf.git/tree/lib/autoconf/fortran.m4#n223 Though I consider it harmful, because if $ac_fc_srcext is set but null the value of ac_ext is also null. That problem ar

Re: Broken example in autoconf manual

2017-03-17 Thread Bert Wesarg
On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 11:26 PM, Nick Bowler wrote: > Hello, > > On 2017-03-16, Max Horn wrote: >> on >> https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf.html#Using-System-Type >> >> this example is given: >> >> case $host in >>alpha*-*-*) AC_CONFIG_LINKS([dither.c:alpha/dith

Invalid @srcdir@ for files outside srcdir in sub-configures

2014-02-20 Thread Bert Wesarg
resides. $ cat build/srcdir srcdir=../../build This one also looks correct, @srcdir@ points to 'build'. $ cat test/srcdir-build srcdir=../../../../build/../test But this one is broken. It does not to resolve an valid path at all. Am I doing something wrong, or is something broken in autoconf? Thanks for any advice. Kind Regards, Bert Wesarg