Re: Reliance on

2007-08-28 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Ludovic, * Ludovic Courtès wrote on Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 02:32:12PM CEST: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > > Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> Another possibility is to generate lib/config.h.in from > >> some-special-name.h.in, say, by some sed script or an

Re: Reliance on

2007-08-28 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Another possibility is to generate lib/config.h.in from >> some-special-name.h.in, say, by some sed script or an autoheader >> invocation with arguments and output redirection. > > Good point. I en

Re: Reliance on

2007-07-22 Thread James Youngman
On 7/22/07, Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello James, * James Youngman wrote on Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 11:34:42PM CEST: > > My rationale is that the big-lost-of-things-to-do works fine for > first-time adopters, but for those who routinely run it, there is no > sense of incremental c

Re: Reliance on

2007-07-22 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello James, * James Youngman wrote on Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 11:34:42PM CEST: > > My rationale is that the big-lost-of-things-to-do works fine for > first-time adopters, but for those who routinely run it, there is no > sense of incremental change; there's no easy way of noticing that an > extra r

Re: Reliance on

2007-07-21 Thread James Youngman
On 7/18/07, Ludovic Courtès <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Alternatively, maybe `gnulib-tool --import' should say something like "Make sure `lib/config.h' is available, e.g., by adding `AC_CONFIG_LINKS(bla bla)' to your `configure.ac' file." I vote against adding more such messages. gnulib-tool al

Re: Reliance on

2007-07-18 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Another possibility is to generate lib/config.h.in from > some-special-name.h.in, say, by some sed script or an autoheader > invocation with arguments and output redirection. Good point. I ended up using `AC_CONFIG_LINKS' to have a `config.h' li

Re: Reliance on

2007-07-17 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Ralf Wildenhues on 7/17/2007 4:40 PM: > > (I suppose another gnulib-specific possibility is that someone hacks > gnulib-tool to support arbitrary other configuration header file names; > or to undo the decision that was made last year to

Re: Reliance on

2007-07-17 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Ludovic, * Ludovic Courtès wrote on Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 05:58:34PM CEST: > > AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([some-special-name.h lib/config.h]) > > but then `autoheader' does not generate `lib/config.h.in', which is a > pain. You could either write lib/config.h.in yourself; it could contain #incl

Reliance on

2007-07-17 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, I just noticed that Gnulib modules rely on the availability of a `#include'able file. I'm using Gnulib in a project that does: AC_CONFIG_HEADER([some-special-name.h]) There, Gnulib modules fail to compile because is not available. I'd happily work around this by doing something like: